From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Helmut Hullen" Subject: database for device scan Date: 31 Oct 2010 15:18:00 +0100 Message-ID: Reply-To: helmut@hullen.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII To: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org Return-path: List-ID: Hallo, linux-btrfs, I've used for some days btrfs-progs-20100717, now I'm using "btrfs- progs-201030" (built with the "SlackBuild" script for slackware). Works fine, but the actual version works in another way than the previous when I say mkfs.btrfs /dev/sdb1 (or how the device may be named). The previous version finished its work within some seconds, the actual version first tests all block devices in "/dev". If I'd run "udev" that may be no big problem. But I prefer not using "udev", I prefer working with static device entries, and that leads to many entries for devices which really don't exist. And "scan" scans all of them. Maybe it's a better idea not to use "/dev" as database, using "proc/ partitions" may be the better way. Viele Gruesse! Helmut