On 01/13/2011 03:43 PM, Kay Sievers wrote: >> On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 3:25 PM, Milan Broz <mbroz@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> Maybe, but this was not invented in DM/MD camp:-) >>> Probably Kay or Greg can answer why it was done this way? > > It's not from Greg or Kay. It just appeared some day in the context of dm. :) ah, then sorry, I am just confused:-) But DM does not need it for operation at all so it must had some other reason. (We have dmsetup ls --tree using dm-ioctls for years.) > And yes, symlinks *look* nice and simple for the outside, but they are > not, and have all sorts of problems like non-atomic updates, make it > impossible to ever rename a device (as long as they copy the device > name), and and and .... we should not add more of this. Yes, I agree, if there is better way, let's switch to that. Milan -- 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
