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From: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me>, Keith Busch <kbusch@kernel.org>,
	linux-nvme@lists.infradead.org, util-linux@vger.kernel.org,
	Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@canonical.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] nvme: add namespace paths links
Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2022 07:46:40 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <289ee526-8f3f-9a2b-eef4-70816eb4f42e@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220405054205.GA23466@lst.de>

On 4/5/22 07:42, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 01, 2022 at 11:28:55AM +0200, Hannes Reinecke wrote:
>> It is really annoying to always have to loop through the entire
>> /sys/block directory just to find the namespace path links for
>> a single namespace in libnvme/nvme-cli.
>> So provide links to the namespace paths for efficient lookup.
> 
> I think having some form of links would be useful.  Quite a while ago
> Thadeu looked into adding some form of relationship for lsblk and
> friends.  Maybe it would be good to sync up and make sure whatever
> links we are adding would be useful for all users?
> 
Care to elaborate?
Using the block device name is the most straightforward way here; we 
don't have a good enumeration to leverage as the paths are essentially 
just a linked list.

We sure can have a subdirectory 'paths', and stick the links in there.
If that helps with lsblk ...

Cheers,

Hannes
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  reply	other threads:[~2022-04-05  5:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20220401092855.90652-1-hare@suse.de>
2022-04-05  5:42 ` [PATCH] nvme: add namespace paths links Christoph Hellwig
2022-04-05  5:46   ` Hannes Reinecke [this message]
2022-04-05  5:48     ` Christoph Hellwig
2022-04-05  8:34       ` Sagi Grimberg
2022-04-05  9:51         ` Hannes Reinecke
2022-04-05 10:22           ` Sagi Grimberg
2022-04-25 13:54       ` Karel Zak
2022-07-29 11:43         ` Hannes Reinecke

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