On Wed, May 06, 2020 at 03:21:41PM +0200, Anthony Iliopoulos wrote:
> On Wed, May 06, 2020 at 03:08:47PM +0200, Karel Zak wrote:
> > On Tue, May 05, 2020 at 04:31:45PM +0200, Anthony Iliopoulos wrote:
> > > The dax (direct access) blockdev capability is exposed via sysfs, add it
> > > to the list of topology values to be obtained while probing.
> > >
> > > Expose blkid_topology_get_dax() symbol that programs can link against
> > > for querying the capability.
> >
> > Do we have any use-case for this change?
> >
> > We maintain blkid_topology_* mostly for mkfs-like programs portability
> > (years ago we had only ioctls, etc..). You can see that libblkid export
> > only small subset topology stuff, so why we need DAX there? ;-)
>
> The use-case is indeed mkfs. I am planning to submit a patch to xfsprogs
Yes, hch is the reason why we have topology API in libblkid :-)
Applied, thanks.
Karel
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