Re: Moving the userland target database from /var/target

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



On 03/10/2016 11:15 PM, Lee Duncan wrote:
> Hi:
> 
> When building targetcli, I have been ignoring build-service warnings for
> years that it should not be using /var/target.
> 
> As I'm pretty sure everyone here knows, we evidently should not be
> creating a high-level directory in /var (see http://www.linfo.org/var.html)
> 
> I understand that it hasn't been moved because it's kind of a PITA,
> being defined in both the kernel and in user-land.
> 
> I would like to submit some patches that would make this configurable. I
> think this might make transitioning it's location a little easier than
> just moving it.
> 
> Would such a change be welcomed, or is there some reason I don't see for
> keeping this directory hierarchy here?
> 
> If this seems like a reasonable idea, any suggestions on how to
> configure the location?
> 
I would be creating a configfs variable holding the directory, which
then can be used to generate the final location.
Or have configfs variables in the individual places holding the
entire pathname.

Cheers,

Hannes
-- 
Dr. Hannes Reinecke		               zSeries & Storage
hare@xxxxxxxx			               +49 911 74053 688
SUSE LINUX GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg
GF: F. Imendörffer, J. Smithard, J. Guild, D. Upmanyu, G. Norton
HRB 21284 (AG Nürnberg)
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe target-devel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html



[Index of Archives]     [Linux SCSI]     [Kernel Newbies]     [Linux SCSI Target Infrastructure]     [Share Photos]     [IDE]     [Security]     [Git]     [Netfilter]     [Bugtraq]     [Yosemite News]     [MIPS Linux]     [ARM Linux]     [Linux Security]     [Linux RAID]     [Linux ATA RAID]     [Linux IIO]     [Device Mapper]

  Powered by Linux