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authorPhil Dibowitz <phild@fb.com>2015-06-25 04:24:42 -0700
committerPhil Dibowitz <phild@fb.com>2015-06-25 04:26:51 -0700
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Fix my_mountpoint view in filesystem2; add tests
The same trick for by_device to list multiple pointpoints should be in by_mounpoint for multiple devices. Add tests for both alternative views.
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@@ -47,7 +47,10 @@ Unlike the 'filesystem' plugin, it provides 3 views into the data:
be a symlink to /proc/mounts it can still have data loss due to different
mount options, or multiple virtualfs mounts with the same fake device name.
* `by_mount` similar to the above but indexed by mountpoint. Won't include
- unmounted filesystems, of course.
+ unmounted filesystems, of course. Instead of a 'device' entry it has a
+ 'devices' entry that is an array. Similar to the 'by_device' view, this extra
+ feature can solve many problems of of the old filesystem plugin, but may still
+ have data loss on things like mount options.
It is recommended to always use `by_pair` when iterating or wanting a full view
of storage devices. The other two are provided for convenient lookup. Other