The format won't help you when you have strings with whitespace or if you
want to export a list for each partition.
> Adding new fields is even easier with /proc/stat-style key:value pairs.
> Both styles are human- as well as machine readable. Problems only arise
> when someone changes the semantics of a certain field without changing the
> tag. But luckily these kinds of changes never happen in a stable kernel
> series...
I don't think that this format is very user friendly, and it has the same
limitations as /proc/partitions.
The problem is not that it is impossible to invent a new format for every
file. The problem is that you need a different format for each file.
bye...
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