Re: [dm-devel] linux-next - WARNING: at fs/block_dev.c:824 bd_link_disk_holder+0x92/0x1ac()

Ted Ts'o
2011-01-14T18:00:18Z

On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 05:20:22PM +0100, Tejun Heo wrote:
>
> Hmmm... that's already possible with the existing holders symlinks,
> right? As Kay said in another message, I don't think we can do
> anything about the symlinks at this point. It already has userland
> users, so we'll have to maintain them and there's no reason to create
> something else for the same functionality.

Yes, agreed. My point was that if we have a better system, we could
migrate blkid and other users to new interface, and maybe in a few
years, we can deprecate that interface. So we do have to maintain
them for at least the medium term, but that shouldn't stop us from
divising a better interface, and then gradually migrating systems to
use that newer and better interface.

- Ted