Messages in this thread | | | From | Matteo Croce <> | Date | Wed, 19 May 2021 16:33:19 +0200 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] nbd: provide a way for userspace processes to identify device backends |
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On Tue, May 18, 2021 at 9:52 AM Prasanna Kalever <pkalever@redhat.com> wrote: > > BTW, loop has similar issue, and patch of 'block: add a sequence number to disks' > > is added for addressing this issue, what do you think of that generic > > approach wrt. this nbd's issue? such as used the exposed sysfs sequence number > > for addressing this issue? > > > > https://lore.kernel.org/linux-block/YH81n34d2G3C4Re+@gardel-login/#r > > If I understand the changes and the background of the fix correctly, I > think with that fix author is trying to monotonically increase the seq > number and add it to the disk on every single device map/attach and > expose it through the sysfs, which will help the userspace processes > further to correlate events for particular and specific devices that > reuse the same loop device. >
Yes, but nothing prevents to use diskseq in nbd, and increase it on reconfigure. That would allow to detect if the device has been reconfigured.
Regards, -- per aspera ad upstream
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