Am 11.01.2010 15:00, schrieb Christoph Hellwig: > On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 02:56:16PM +0100, Kevin Wolf wrote: >> Are you going to propose a cleaner patch? I have currently some other >> bugs to do first, but I was certainly planning to do so. However, I'll >> happily leave it to you if you have the time right now. > > I'm looking into doing it in the generic block layer, yes.
More or less the same hack, just in cleaner? Or trying to fundamentally change things? I think you haven't answered yet to what I said in the thread of my original hack. I'm quoting it here for convenience: > Ok, if you start talking about layering, we can have a fundamental > discussion on this topic and why the layering is broken anyway. > Logically, we have image formats like qcow2, VMDK and raw, and they are > stored in files, on CD-ROMs or general block devices. From a layering > perspective, it is wrong to include the latter in the raw format driver > in the first place. Actually, I think the differentiation between raw files and host_* is at the same level as protocols are. Probably they should be implemented very similarly. Do you think it's possible/worth the effort to try putting things straight here? Kevin
