Hi, On Mon, Nov 09, 2009 at 10:47:08PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> - Either we align more on POSIX to manage to get the st_dev (aka fsid) > of filesystems equal to the the st_rdev of their underlying /dev > entries. An easy way is to have storeios expose their own pid as > st_rdev, and have filesystems use the underlying storeio st_rdev for > their st_dev (aka fsid). One issue is for the / ext2fs, since it > doesn't use a storeio, and a storeio could be started later. I don't see how this is a problem specific to "/"... AIUI, it would be possible to start another storeio for a store that already has one just the same. (Unless access to the actual underlying device is exclusive -- in which case "/" wouldn't be a problem either.) -antrik-
