On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 01:55, FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Not a comment on the original topic, > > On Tue, 27 Jul 2010 16:09:47 +0200 > Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> wrote: > >> On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 09:39:56AM -0400, Vivek Goyal wrote: >> > How can I do it better? >> > >> > I needed a unique identifier with which user can work in terms of >> > specifying weights to devices and in terms of understanding what stats >> > mean. Device major/minor number looked like a obivious choice. >> > >> > I was looking for how to determine what is the major/minor number of disk >> > request queue is associated with and I could use bdi to do that. >> >> The problem is that a queue can be shared between multiple gendisks, > > Is anyone still doing this? > > I thought that everyone agreed that this was wrong. Such users (like > MTD) were fixed. I think it was MTD, which is fixed, and floppy, which is still the way it was. Kay -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
