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SubjectRe: [bk/patch] driver model update: device_unregister()

On Wed, 9 Oct 2002, Alexander Viro wrote:
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> 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).

Linus

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