>>>>> "Lukáš" == Lukáš Czerner <lczerner@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: Lukáš> Hmm, I do not know. blktool seems to be very similar to blockdev Lukáš> in the sense that it is for querying and changing block device Lukáš> setting which is not what we do with, discard, write same or Lukáš> zeroout where we actually change the data on the device Lukáš> itself. In my mind it just somehow does not fit there. I was merely picking up on the fact that blockdev's argument handling didn't seem particularly friendly to the discard/zero/ws case. Whereas blktool looked more flexible. Lukáš> But you're right that it is not just about discard or secure Lukáš> discard, we have other quite similar functionalities and it might Lukáš> be worth having one separate tool for all those, thanks for Lukáš> pointing this out. I'm perfectly ok with a separate blkswissarmyknife command. I'm also ok with separate blkdiscard/blkwritesame/blkzeroout commands as long as they look and feel the same. -- Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux Engineering -- 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
