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From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...>
Cc: Rob Landley <rob@...>, Greg KH <greg@...>, James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...>, Matthew Wilcox <matthew@...>, <linux-kernel@...>, <linux-scsi@...>, Jens Axboe <axboe@...>, Suparna Bhattacharya <suparna@...>, Nick Piggin <piggin@...>
Subject: Re: What still uses the block layer?
Date: Monday, October 15, 2007 - 2:56 pm

On Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 07:00:22AM -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote:


Keeping the naming as hda while changing the semantics (such as the 
reduced number of partitions) would have been differently confusing. We 
did look into keeping compatibility symlinks, but decided to just 
transition everything to UUIDs instead.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
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What still uses the block layer?, Rob Landley, (Thu Oct 11, 9:11 pm)
Re: What still uses the block layer?, Matthew Wilcox, (Sat Oct 13, 6:05 pm)
Re: What still uses the block layer?, James Bottomley, (Sun Oct 14, 6:24 pm)
Re: What still uses the block layer?, Luben Tuikov, (Sun Oct 14, 8:45 pm)
Re: What still uses the block layer?, Rob Landley, (Mon Oct 15, 2:51 am)
Re: What still uses the block layer?, Luben Tuikov, (Mon Oct 15, 4:37 am)
Re: What still uses the block layer?, Rob Landley, (Sun Oct 14, 7:45 pm)
Re: What still uses the block layer?, James Bottomley, (Mon Oct 15, 9:10 am)
Re: What still uses the block layer?, Rob Landley, (Mon Oct 15, 5:51 pm)
Re: What still uses the block layer?, Greg KH, (Mon Oct 15, 2:00 am)
Re: What still uses the block layer?, Rob Landley, (Mon Oct 15, 4:36 am)
Re: What still uses the block layer?, Greg KH, (Mon Oct 15, 1:25 pm)
Re: What still uses the block layer?, Rob Landley, (Mon Oct 15, 6:54 pm)
Re: What still uses the block layer?, Jeff Garzik, (Mon Oct 15, 2:46 pm)
Re: What still uses the block layer?, Bill Davidsen, (Wed Oct 17, 7:43 pm)
Re: What still uses the block layer?, Stefan Richter, (Tue Oct 16, 2:33 am)
Re: What still uses the block layer?, Matthew Wilcox, (Mon Oct 15, 2:00 pm)
Re: What still uses the block layer?, Arjan van de Ven, (Mon Oct 15, 10:00 am)
Re: What still uses the block layer?, Matthew Garrett, (Mon Oct 15, 2:56 pm)
Re: What still uses the block layer?, Alan Cox, (Mon Oct 15, 9:08 am)
Re: What still uses the block layer?, Christoph Hellwig, (Mon Oct 15, 4:52 am)
Re: What still uses the block layer?, Theodore Tso, (Sun Oct 14, 9:45 pm)
Re: What still uses the block layer?, Rob Landley, (Mon Oct 15, 4:04 am)
Re: What still uses the block layer?, , (Wed Oct 17, 1:34 am)
Re: What still uses the block layer?, , (Wed Oct 17, 2:07 am)
Re: What still uses the block layer?, Theodore Tso, (Mon Oct 15, 9:21 am)
Re: What still uses the block layer?, , (Mon Oct 15, 10:51 pm)
Re: What still uses the block layer?, Douglas Gilbert, (Mon Oct 15, 10:46 am)
Re: What still uses the block layer?, Alan Cox, (Mon Oct 15, 9:29 am)
Re: What still uses the block layer?, Jeff Garzik, (Mon Oct 15, 1:44 pm)
Re: What still uses the block layer?, Theodore Tso, (Mon Oct 15, 9:35 am)
Re: What still uses the block layer?, Loïc Grenié, (Mon Oct 15, 6:32 am)
Re: What still uses the block layer?, Rob Landley, (Mon Oct 15, 5:09 pm)
Re: What still uses the block layer?, Julian Calaby, (Mon Oct 15, 5:06 am)
Re: What still uses the block layer?, Rob Landley, (Mon Oct 15, 6:08 am)
Re: What still uses the block layer?, Greg KH, (Mon Oct 15, 1:33 pm)
Re: What still uses the block layer?, , (Mon Oct 15, 10:54 pm)
Re: What still uses the block layer?, Matthew Wilcox, (Tue Oct 16, 12:04 am)
Re: What still uses the block layer?, Greg KH, (Tue Oct 16, 12:21 am)
Re: What still uses the block layer?, , (Tue Oct 16, 1:00 am)
Re: What still uses the block layer?, Arjan van de Ven, (Tue Oct 16, 12:11 am)
Re: What still uses the block layer?, , (Tue Oct 16, 12:15 am)
OOM killer gripe (was Re: What still uses the block layer?), Nick Piggin, (Mon Oct 15, 9:37 am)
Re: OOM killer gripe (was Re: What still uses the block laye..., Andrew Morton, (Tue Oct 16, 4:37 pm)
Re: OOM killer gripe (was Re: What still uses the block laye..., Eric W. Biederman, (Mon Oct 15, 11:55 pm)
Re: OOM killer gripe (was Re: What still uses the block laye..., Nick Piggin, (Tue Oct 16, 2:59 am)
Re: OOM killer gripe (was Re: What still uses the block laye..., Eric W. Biederman, (Tue Oct 16, 12:38 am)
Re: OOM killer gripe (was Re: What still uses the block laye..., Rob Landley, (Tue Oct 16, 2:38 am)
Re: OOM killer gripe (was Re: What still uses the block laye..., Alan Cox, (Tue Oct 16, 6:28 am)
Re: OOM killer gripe (was Re: What still uses the block laye..., Rob Landley, (Tue Oct 16, 7:59 pm)
Re: OOM killer gripe (was Re: What still uses the block laye..., Eric W. Biederman, (Tue Oct 16, 5:31 am)
Re: OOM killer gripe (was Re: What still uses the block laye..., Nick Piggin, (Tue Oct 16, 3:34 am)
Re: OOM killer gripe (was Re: What still uses the block laye..., Rogier Wolff, (Thu Oct 18, 9:00 am)
Re: OOM killer gripe (was Re: What still uses the block laye..., Rob Landley, (Fri Oct 19, 2:49 am)
Re: OOM killer gripe (was Re: What still uses the block laye..., Rogier Wolff, (Fri Oct 19, 3:21 am)
Re: OOM killer gripe (was Re: What still uses the block laye..., , (Tue Oct 16, 12:10 am)
Re: OOM killer gripe (was Re: What still uses the block laye..., Eric W. Biederman, (Tue Oct 16, 12:45 am)
Re: OOM killer gripe (was Re: What still uses the block laye..., Theodore Tso, (Mon Oct 15, 7:40 am)
Re: OOM killer gripe (was Re: What still uses the block laye..., Pavel Machek, (Sat Oct 20, 5:50 am)
Re: OOM killer gripe (was Re: What still uses the block laye..., Rob Landley, (Mon Oct 15, 5:52 am)
Re: OOM killer gripe (was Re: What still uses the block laye..., Pavel Machek, (Sat Oct 20, 5:48 am)
Re: OOM killer gripe (was Re: What still uses the block laye..., Nick Piggin, (Mon Oct 15, 11:08 am)
Re: OOM killer gripe (was Re: What still uses the block laye..., David Newall, (Tue Oct 16, 2:22 am)
Re: What still uses the block layer?, David Newall, (Sun Oct 14, 1:54 am)
Re: What still uses the block layer?, Stefan Richter, (Sun Oct 14, 1:46 pm)
Re: What still uses the block layer?, Rob Landley, (Sun Oct 14, 7:36 pm)
Re: What still uses the block layer?, Stefan Richter, (Mon Oct 15, 1:44 am)
Re: What still uses the block layer?, Rob Landley, (Mon Oct 15, 5:26 am)
Re: What still uses the block layer?, Wilfried Klaebe, (Mon Oct 15, 4:29 pm)
Re: What still uses the block layer?, Matthew Wilcox, (Mon Oct 15, 12:08 pm)
Re: What still uses the block layer?, Stefan Richter, (Mon Oct 15, 1:10 pm)
Re: What still uses the block layer?, , (Mon Oct 15, 11:06 pm)
Re: What still uses the block layer?, Alan Cox, (Tue Oct 16, 6:19 am)
Re: What still uses the block layer?, , (Tue Oct 16, 3:54 pm)
Re: What still uses the block layer?, Matthew Wilcox, (Tue Oct 16, 3:54 pm)
Re: What still uses the block layer?, , (Tue Oct 16, 4:55 pm)
Re: What still uses the block layer?, Gabor Gombas, (Wed Oct 17, 5:48 am)
Re: What still uses the block layer?, , (Wed Oct 17, 5:04 pm)
Re: What still uses the block layer?, Stefan Richter, (Wed Oct 17, 1:23 pm)
Re: What still uses the block layer?, Alan Cox, (Tue Oct 16, 5:49 pm)
Re: What still uses the block layer?, Theodore Tso, (Tue Oct 16, 4:34 pm)
Re: What still uses the block layer?, Stefan Richter, (Tue Oct 16, 4:56 pm)
Re: What still uses the block layer?, Stefan Richter, (Tue Oct 16, 4:18 pm)
Re: What still uses the block layer?, Stefan Richter, (Tue Oct 16, 1:56 am)
Re: What still uses the block layer?, Tilman Schmidt, (Sun Oct 14, 6:35 pm)