On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 04:31:49PM +0800, Anand Jain wrote:
> From: Anand Jain <anand.j...@oracle.com>
> 
> This patch introduces new option <devid> for the command
> 
>   btrfs device delete <device_path|devid>[..]  <mnt>
> 
> In a user reported issue on a 3-disk-RAID1, one disk failed with its
> SB unreadable. Now with this patch user will have a choice to delete
> the device using devid.
> 
> The other method we could do, is to match the input device_path
> to the available device_paths with in the kernel. But that won't
> work in all the cases, like what if user provided mapper path
> when the path within the kernel is a non-mapper path.
> 
> This patch depends on the below kernel patch for the new feature to work,
> however it will fail-back to the old interface for the kernel without the
> patch
> 
>   Btrfs: Introduce device delete by devid
> 
> Signed-off-by: Anand Jain <anand.j...@oracle.com>
> [ refresh on top of current code, sync with latest kernel patches, other
>   minor changes ]
> Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dste...@suse.com>

Patch replaced in devel.
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