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It's only +</I>><i> intended to be used for LABEL/UUID conversion. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Please add a comment in the code :) +</I> +><i> +</I>><i> From the upstream maintainer: +</I>><i> <kzak> coling: -p provides more information, the cache is designed for +</I>><i> LABEL/UUID conversion -- and the goal is to avoid the cache if possible +</I>><i> (it's mostly for backward compatibility). The ideal solution is to read +</I>><i> the information from udev DB. +</I>><i> <kzak> coling: man blkid (at least the latest version contains some hint +</I>><i> about this issue) +</I>><i> <kzak> coling: I'd like to learn people to use lsblk -- it's designed +</I>><i> more friendly for end-users as well as for scripts and it reads info +</I>><i> from udev, libblkid is only fallback here. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Longer term we should kill off the use of blkid and perhaps move to +</I>><i> lsblk or some perl-udev (if such a thing exists) usage instead: +</I>><i> +</I>><i> <kay> coling: avoid the blkid cache, it is a completely broken idea +</I>><i> <kay> kzak: you should really kill that thing :) +</I>><i> <kzak> kay: I'd like to kill blkid at all and keep it as "to test the +</I>><i> library" binary... +</I>><i> <kay> kzak: tools with options like that talk for their sanity +</I>><i> themselves :) " -g Perform a garbage collection pass on the blkid +</I>><i> cache to remove devices which no longer exist." +</I>><i> <kay> kzak: it's just silly, really silly to ever do that :) +</I>><i> <kay> kzak: yeah, sounds fine to let blkid and its cache die in the long +</I>><i> run +</I>><i> <kzak> lsblk is maintainable and extendable -- fix blkid(8) is +</I>><i> impossible to fix... +</I>><i> +</I>><i> This reverts r6891. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Modified Paths +</I>><i> +</I>><i> - drakx/trunk/perl-install/NEWS<#13cd91629257f7c0_drakxtrunkperlinstallNEWS> +</I>><i> - drakx/trunk/perl-install/fs/type.pm<#13cd91629257f7c0_drakxtrunkperlinstallfstypepm> +</I>><i> - drakx/trunk/perl-install/install/NEWS<#13cd91629257f7c0_drakxtrunkperlinstallinstallNEWS> +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Modified: drakx/trunk/perl-install/NEWS +</I>><i> =================================================================== +</I>><i> --- drakx/trunk/perl-install/NEWS 2013-02-14 01:39:37 UTC (rev 7323) +</I>><i> +++ drakx/trunk/perl-install/NEWS 2013-02-14 14:22:44 UTC (rev 7324) +</I>><i> @@ -1,3 +1,5 @@ +</I>><i> +- always bypass blkid cache (the cache only includes a subset of the data we need) +</I>><i> + +</I>><i> Version 15.19 - 16 January 2013 +</I>><i> +</I>><i> - update translations +</I>><i> Modified: drakx/trunk/perl-install/fs/type.pm +</I>><i> =================================================================== +</I>><i> --- drakx/trunk/perl-install/fs/type.pm 2013-02-14 01:39:37 UTC (rev 7323) +</I>><i> +++ drakx/trunk/perl-install/fs/type.pm 2013-02-14 14:22:44 UTC (rev 7324) +</I>><i> @@ -273,7 +273,7 @@ +</I>><i> +</I>><i> my %h = map { +</I>><i> if_(/(.*?)=(.*)/, $1 => $2); +</I>><i> - } run_program::get_stdout_raw({ timeout => 30 }, 'blkid', '2>', '/dev/null', '-o', 'udev', devices::make($part->{device})); +</I>><i> + } run_program::get_stdout_raw({ timeout => 30 }, 'blkid', '2>', '/dev/null', '-o', 'udev', '-p', devices::make($part->{device})); +</I>><i> +</I>><i> \%h; +</I>><i> } +</I>><i> Modified: drakx/trunk/perl-install/install/NEWS +</I>><i> =================================================================== +</I>><i> --- drakx/trunk/perl-install/install/NEWS 2013-02-14 01:39:37 UTC (rev 7323) +</I>><i> +++ drakx/trunk/perl-install/install/NEWS 2013-02-14 14:22:44 UTC (rev 7324) +</I>><i> @@ -1,3 +1,5 @@ +</I>><i> +- always bypass blkid cache (the cache only includes a subset of the data we need) +</I>><i> + +</I>><i> Version 15.20 - 21 January 2013 +</I>><i> +</I>><i> - use modprobe instead of insmod (mga#8676) +</I>><i> +</I>><i> +</I>><i> +</I>-------------- next part -------------- +An HTML attachment was scrubbed... +URL: </pipermail/mageia-dev/attachments/20130214/7ed5ad66/attachment.html> +</PRE> + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="022853.html">[Mageia-dev] Freeze push: mutter 3.6.3 +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="022849.html">[Mageia-dev] [soft-commits] [7324] (call_blkid) always bypass blkid cache +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#22848">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#22848">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#22848">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#22848">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + +<hr> +<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">More information about the Mageia-dev +mailing list</a><br> +</body></html> |