On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 04:05:32PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: >> How does this have anything to do with boot times? Do you really have a >> foolish shell script that iteratorates over every single disk in the >> sysfs tree for every disk? What does it do that for? > > Any time you want to get the sysfs information for a filesystem which is > already mounted, that's what you're forced to do. > >> I thought we were talking about 2TB disks here, with a proposed new >> ioctl, not foolishness of boot scripts... > > I pointed out that having a way to map device numbers to sysfs directories > would have the same effect, *and* would be usable for other purposes. I'd > rather see that than a new ioctl, and another, and another... Again, a simple udev rule will give you that today if you really want it... And I think 'udevinfo' can be used to retrieve this information as well. thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
