Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934806AbYCFCfu (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Mar 2008 21:35:50 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S934302AbYCFC36 (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Mar 2008 21:29:58 -0500 Received: from mail.lang.hm ([64.81.33.126]:40237 "EHLO bifrost.lang.hm" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S934471AbYCFC35 (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Mar 2008 21:29:57 -0500 Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 18:31:00 -0800 (PST) From: david@lang.hm X-X-Sender: dlang@asgard.lang.hm To: phillips@phunq.net cc: linux-kernel Subject: [RFC] An alternative interface to device mapper Message-ID: User-Agent: Alpine 1.00 (DEB 882 2007-12-20) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 859 Lines: 18 forgive the lack of threading, I missed this yesterday and just found this via the LWN article. I like the general approach that you are taking of simplifying the interface, however in your interest of making it easy to write C code for you are making the new interface difficult to script for. is it really that painful to to make everything file based so that it can be scripted as well? frankly, most sysadmins do a lot of scripting and almost no C coding, so while a nice C interface is useful for creating tools, a good scripting interface is critical for good, flexible use by sysadmins. David Lang -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/