Re: [PATCH] Btrfs: add a disk info ioctl to get the disks attached to a filesystem

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On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 07:25:13PM -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 04:53:16PM -0400, Josef Bacik wrote:
> > This was a request from the systemd guys.  They need a quick and easy way to get
> > all devices attached to a Btrfs filesystem in order to check if any of the disks
> > are SSD for...something, I didn't ask :).   I've tested this with the
> > btrfs-progs patch that accompanies this patch.  Thanks,
> 
> So please tell the "systemd guys" to explain what the fuck they're doing
> to linux-fsdevel and fiend a proper interface.  Chance is they will fuck
> up as much as just about ever other lowlevel userspace tool are very
> high.
> 

Lennart? :).  And Christoph, what would be a good interface?  LVM has a slaves/
subdir in sysfs which symlinks to all of their dev's, would you rather I
resurrect the sysfs stuff for Btrfs and do a similar thing?  I'm open to
suggestions, I just took the quick and painless way out.  Thanks,

Josef
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