linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/2] make automatic device

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Message-ID: <20150305012043.GD14927@swordfish>
Date:	Thu, 5 Mar 2015 10:20:43 +0900
From:	Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@...il.com>
To:	Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com>,
	Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@...il.com>,
	Nitin Gupta <ngupta@...are.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] make automatic device_id generation possible

On (03/05/15 09:58), Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
> /* yet "/dev/zram$(id -u)" thing looks interesting */
> 

hm, I can think of a huge build server with tons of users. /dev/zram$(id -u)
created during user login and destroyed during logout. so users use theirs own
zram devices with predictable device ids (which also makes it simpler for admin)
for compilation/etc., and don't pressure hdds that much.

	-ss
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