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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Brian Geffon <bgeffon@google.com>
Cc: Alasdair Kergon <agk@redhat.com>,
	Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>,
	dm-devel@redhat.com, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] dm: introduce a DM_ENFORCE_OPEN_COUNT flag.
Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2022 06:42:22 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YfqYTuhGqOl4SneK@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADyq12yugY0g2EMYvyrPVn98x3Tp4PR+eVddmmjZpKSYyrrzag@mail.gmail.com>

Withmy block hat on: nak to this.  No block driver has any business at
all rejecting "too many openers".  In fact any opener but the first of
a partition is already not counted as an opener, and I plan to complete
hide the open count from the device driver.

  reply	other threads:[~2022-02-02 14:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-01-24 15:02 [PATCH] dm: introduce a no open flag for deferred remove Brian Geffon
2022-01-24 15:14 ` Alasdair G Kergon
2022-01-24 15:25   ` Brian Geffon
2022-01-25  0:20     ` Alasdair G Kergon
2022-01-25 14:25       ` Brian Geffon
2022-01-25 17:11       ` Brian Geffon
2022-01-26 19:22       ` [PATCH] dm: introduce a DM_ENFORCE_OPEN_COUNT flag Brian Geffon
2022-01-31 14:17         ` Brian Geffon
2022-02-02 14:42           ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2022-02-22 19:16             ` Mike Snitzer

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