Re: [LEDE-DEV] replacing mountd with blockd - looking for testers

2017-02-27 Thread Daniel Golle
On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 11:48:23AM +0100, John Crispin wrote: > On 27/02/2017 11:43, Alberto Bursi wrote: > > There are quite a few NAS devices that have 2+ disk activity leds (one > > for each disk) that could really use a generic system instead of adding > > patches to drivers/kernel. > > dont

Re: [LEDE-DEV] replacing mountd with blockd - looking for testers

2017-02-27 Thread Alberto Bursi
On 02/27/2017 11:48 AM, John Crispin wrote: > > > > dont get this, why is a kernel patch required ? That's how I saw some of such NAS stock firmwares (and some Debian/Arch for ARM targeting those devices) do. Someone patched the sata driver (and the kernel) to create a "sata activity on port X

Re: [LEDE-DEV] replacing mountd with blockd - looking for testers

2017-02-27 Thread John Crispin
On 27/02/2017 11:36, Daniel Golle wrote: > Hi John, > > On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 11:20:40AM +0100, John Crispin wrote: >> Hi, >> >> i have created a branch in my staging tree [1] that removes mountd in >> favour of blockd. blockd is part of the fstools package and uses the >> block tool and /etc/

Re: [LEDE-DEV] replacing mountd with blockd - looking for testers

2017-02-27 Thread John Crispin
On 27/02/2017 11:43, Alberto Bursi wrote: > > > On 02/27/2017 11:20 AM, John Crispin wrote: >> Hi, >> >> * support for eject buttons and LEDs > > Can this daemon light up a led every time a specific mounted partition > is accessed (read/written)? not yet, which is why this action item is lis

Re: [LEDE-DEV] replacing mountd with blockd - looking for testers

2017-02-27 Thread Alberto Bursi
On 02/27/2017 11:20 AM, John Crispin wrote: > Hi, > > * support for eject buttons and LEDs Can this daemon light up a led every time a specific mounted partition is accessed (read/written)? There are quite a few NAS devices that have 2+ disk activity leds (one for each disk) that could really

Re: [LEDE-DEV] replacing mountd with blockd - looking for testers

2017-02-27 Thread Daniel Golle
Hi John, On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 11:20:40AM +0100, John Crispin wrote: > Hi, > > i have created a branch in my staging tree [1] that removes mountd in > favour of blockd. blockd is part of the fstools package and uses the > block tool and /etc/config/fstab as a backend. > > blockd is an optional

[LEDE-DEV] replacing mountd with blockd - looking for testers

2017-02-27 Thread John Crispin
Hi, i have created a branch in my staging tree [1] that removes mountd in favour of blockd. blockd is part of the fstools package and uses the block tool and /etc/config/fstab as a backend. blockd is an optional daemon and when installed will provide these features in addition to what block-mount