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    On Wed, 9 Oct 2002, Linus Torvalds wrote:

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    > On Wed, 9 Oct 2002, Alexander Viro wrote:
    > >
    > > Sorry, no. Which partition is the backing store for this filesystem is
    > > question to some filesystem drivers. Not even every fs driver that
    > > happens to use block devices - some of them use more than one (e.g
    > > for journal).
    > >
    > > IOW, it's not a partition property.
    >
    > I didn't say it was a partition. I said it was a _filesystem_ property.
    > And yes, it can be a list of multiple partitions - the same way LVM is a
    > list of _multiple_ partitions.
    >
    > The point being that a partition is a real entity, and should have a node
    > of its own - so that you can point to it (and "node" may of course be
    > "subdirectory" if you want to have multiple things associated with it).

    OK, call me dense, but what things are associated with partition aside of the
    fact that it exists?

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