Messages in this thread | | | From | "Elliott, Robert (Server Storage)" <> | Subject | RE: [Linux-nvdimm] [PATCH v2 18/20] libnd: infrastructure for btt devices | Date | Fri, 15 May 2015 04:25:24 +0000 |
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> -----Original Message----- > From: Linux-nvdimm [mailto:linux-nvdimm-bounces@lists.01.org] On Behalf > Of Dan Williams > Sent: Thursday, May 14, 2015 7:42 PM > To: Kani, Toshimitsu > Cc: Neil Brown; Greg KH; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; linux- > nvdimm@lists.01.org > Subject: Re: [Linux-nvdimm] [PATCH v2 18/20] libnd: infrastructure for > btt devices > ... > So we can fix this to be at least as stable as the backing device > names [1], but as far as I can see we would need to start using the > backing device name in the btt device name. A strawman proposal is to > append 's' to indicated 'sectored'. So /dev/pmem0s is the btt > instance fronting /dev/pmem0. Other examples: > > /dev/pmem0p1s > /dev/ndblk0.0s > /dev/ndblk0.0p1s > ... > > Thoughts? > > [1]: https://lists.01.org/pipermail/linux-nvdimm/2015-April/000636.html
I like that; it also hints to the user that another driver has already claimed /dev/pmem0, similar to how the presence of /dev/sda1, /dev/sda2, etc. hints that a program has partitioned /dev/sda.
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