Le 16 avril 2026 00:16:33 GMT+02:00, Samuel Thibault <[email protected]> a écrit :
>I'm then wondering how this would fit in the "grand scheme". Our current >approach, /dev/hd0s* being always there, is indeed not really good >because it doesn't easily tell the user which partitions are actually >there. We used to have to have this because partitions used to be >handled by the kernel, and then we have moved to >storerio+parted-supported partitions, which brings much more >flexibility. > >Perhaps we could use > >settrans -c /dev/hd0s /hurd/partfs /dev/hd0 > >and then we'd have /dev/hd0s/1, which is almost like before, but allows >the entries to be dynamic. Actually, we could even have some > >settrans -c /dev/hd /hurd/probedisk hd > >and then we'd have /dev/hd/0, and we could have /dev/hd/0s being partfs, >so we'd eventually have > >/dev/hd/0s/1 This is mostly curiosity and not suggestion : is it possible for an FS node to implement both 'device' and 'directory' interfaces ? Like facets ? If yes, then we could have the root dir of partfs serve the raw device/file content. Actually, rereading the previous mail, that may be the last proposal. -- Olivier
