On Tue, Jan 08, 2019 at 01:16:14PM +0800, Anand Jain wrote: > > > On 01/08/2019 01:28 AM, David Sterba wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 04, 2019 at 01:31:51PM +0800, Anand Jain wrote: > >> Adds cli and ioctl to forget a scanned device or forget all stale > >> devices in the kernel. > > > > I've read my comments to previous postings and I suggested to add more > > ways how to specify the device, eg. by uuid or fsid:devid. Have you > > considered that? > > Right I responded [1], > > [1] > https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-btrfs/msg81059.html > > basically.. I like uuid|fsid:devid idea but, > - we also need to add the ability to list out uuid|fsid:devid which > are already scanned, such as [2] (in ml since 2015). > > [2] > https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/7362881/
That would be nice to have but is a bigger task than this ioctl. > Further, its better to be consistent with other cli too.. > As of now, 'btrfs device delete' supports only <path|devid> we need > to add uuid. Yeah, the changes to support the enhanced syntax would need to be done for all commands. The /dev/path should be sufficient for now.
