On 25.04.2011 14:23, Alexander Motin wrote: > What will not work: > - old device names won't be seen inside GEOM, so users who hardcoded > provider names in gmirror/gstripe/... metadata (not the default > behavior) are still in trouble. > - patch mimics ATA_STATIC_ID behavior, if user had custom kernel > without it, he should update device names manually. > - it won't work for users with hot-unplugging ATA controllers (not > devices), but I believe it is really rare case. > - low-level tools, such as smartmontools, won't be able to work with > alias devices, as background ada driver doesn't implements legacy > ioctls. May be I could partially fix this. > > Except those, I think this patch should work for the most of users. > > Any more objections/ideas? Is this an acceptable solution?
Hi, what about new GEOM class? You can create new class instance after disk_alloc(), attach it to the new disk and create provider with old-style name. It seems this class will be very simple. -- WBR, Andrey V. Elsukov
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