Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 9 Oct 2002 10:55:45 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: [bk/patch] driver model update: device_unregister() |
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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).
Linus
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