On Fri, Feb 01, 2013 at 07:27:43AM -0800, Kent Overstreet wrote: > > > Kent was talking about using MD (and though he isn't opposed to DM he > > > doesn't care to integrate with DM himself). Either DM or MD would > > > implicitly enable bcache to use this interface. But in the near-term I > > > cannot see why Kent shouldn't be able to use bd_link_disk_holder too. > > > > Being part of dm or dm should make this mostly irrelevant, no? > > Yeah, but who knows when that'll actually happen and since this is for > userspace I'm just going to call it. The refcounting won't affect me, > and using it in bcache won't affect ripping that out. Yeah, I don't see any problem regarding user-visible behavior. Please go ahead. It's just gross internally and I wanted someone to do something about it before spreading its misuse (depending on the refs). Thanks. -- tejun -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-bcache" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
