Re: mounting wedges by name

[Michael van Elst <mlelstv%serpens.de@localhost>]

On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 11:07:41AM +0200, haad wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 2:48 AM, Michael van Elst 
> <mlelstv%serpens.de@localhost> wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 10:21:16PM +0200, Adam Hamsik wrote:
> >>
> >> Why do you want to remove DIOCGWEDGEINFO and what should be a replacement 
> >> for it ? DIOCGWEDGEINFO is already used by all of our tools and many 
> >> others to get information about available disk space from partition, 
> >> logical volume etc.
> >
> > I prefer to avoid multiple competing APIs.
> 
> With who is this API competing ?

The suggestion was to access the wedge information with proplists
(like drvctl -p) instead of augmenting DIOCGWEDGEINFO with things
like the partition UUID. In that case we have two competing APIs
and DIOCGWEDGEINFO could be phased out.


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