Re: [PATCHSET 3/4] sysfs: divorce sysfs from kobject and driver model

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From: Eric W. Biederman
Date: Tuesday, October 16, 2007 - 4:54 pm

sukadev@us.ibm.com writes:


No.  It is worse you need to access a filesystem and probably
a block device that is available on both machine A and machine B.
With care we can introduce appropriate namespaces and namespace semantics
so we can make the names be what we need.

For a classic tricky case think what it would require to migrate
a git archive with checked out files and not need to say
"git-update-index --refresh" before you work with the files.

I used names like disk-1 and disk-2 instead of UUIDs because it
was easier for me to type and think about.  You do need some
kind of absolute disk or filesystem identity you can refer back to.

Eric
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[PATCH 05/22] sysfs: implement sysfs_find_child(), Tejun Heo, (Thu Sep 20, 1:05 am)
[PATCH 06/22] sysfs: restructure addrm helpers, Tejun Heo, (Thu Sep 20, 1:05 am)
[PATCH 01/22] sysfs: make sysfs_root a pointer, Tejun Heo, (Thu Sep 20, 1:05 am)
[PATCH 04/22] sysfs: make SYSFS_COPY_NAME a flag, Tejun Heo, (Thu Sep 20, 1:05 am)
[PATCH 14/22] sysfs: s/symlink/link/g, Tejun Heo, (Thu Sep 20, 1:05 am)
[PATCH 21/22] sysfs: kill sysfs_hash_and_remove(), Tejun Heo, (Thu Sep 20, 1:05 am)
Re: [PATCHSET 3/4] sysfs: divorce sysfs from kobject and d ..., Eric W. Biederman, (Thu Sep 27, 12:25 pm)
Re: [PATCHSET 3/4] sysfs: divorce sysfs from kobject and d ..., Eric W. Biederman, (Wed Oct 10, 6:16 am)
Re: [PATCHSET 3/4] sysfs: divorce sysfs from kobject and d ..., Eric W. Biederman, (Wed Oct 10, 2:16 pm)
Re: [PATCHSET 3/4] sysfs: divorce sysfs from kobject and d ..., Eric W. Biederman, (Tue Oct 16, 4:54 pm)