On Friday 09 July 2004 15:29, christophe varoqui wrote: > > That ioctl interface is just plain horrible, it should really stay > > out of view inside libdevmapper in case somebody notices. And we > > do not want to make libdevmapper a dependency just to ioctl the > > virtual device. Going through libdevmapper makes plenty of sense > > for things like suspend/resume where there is a lot of > > deadlock-prevention logic that has to be followed rigorously, but > > no sense whatsoever for what I use this interface, and what I > > expect other people might use it for. Of course, you are one of > > those "other people", I think, with multipath, so it would help if > > you tell me what you have in mind there. > > Do you volunteer to resurrect the dmfs pseudo-fs ? :) No, something cleaner, simpler and message based. It's not the immediate issue though. Regards, Daniel
