On Tue, Apr 05, 2022 at 07:46:40AM +0200, Hannes Reinecke wrote: > On 4/5/22 07:42, Christoph Hellwig wrote: >> On Fri, Apr 01, 2022 at 11:28:55AM +0200, Hannes Reinecke wrote: >>> It is really annoying to always have to loop through the entire >>> /sys/block directory just to find the namespace path links for >>> a single namespace in libnvme/nvme-cli. >>> So provide links to the namespace paths for efficient lookup. >> >> I think having some form of links would be useful. Quite a while ago >> Thadeu looked into adding some form of relationship for lsblk and >> friends. Maybe it would be good to sync up and make sure whatever >> links we are adding would be useful for all users? >> > Care to elaborate? > Using the block device name is the most straightforward way here; we don't > have a good enumeration to leverage as the paths are essentially just a > linked list. > > We sure can have a subdirectory 'paths', and stick the links in there. > If that helps with lsblk ... I personally don't care. But I've added Thadeu and the util-linux list to get everyone on board.
