Re: [RFD w/info-PATCH] device arguments from lookup, partion code

Alexander Viro (viro@math.psu.edu)
Sat, 19 May 2001 04:10:26 -0400 (EDT)


On Sat, 19 May 2001, Ben LaHaise wrote:

> It's not done yet, but similar techniques would be applied. I envision
> that a raid device would support operations such as
> open("/dev/md0/slot=5,hot-add=/dev/sda")

Think for a moment and you'll see why it's not only ugly as hell, but simply
won't work.

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