Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Wed, 8 May 2002 01:54:54 +0200 (CEST) | | From | Roman Zippel <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] 2.5.14 IDE 56 |
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Hi,
On Tue, 7 May 2002, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Also, you obviously haven't thought it through AT ALL. Hint: partitions. > > If you have /dev/hda1, that _cannot_ be a symlink to the physical tree, > because on a physical level that partition DOES NOT EXIST. It's purely a > virtual mapping. > > Yet clearly there _is_ a mapping from /dev/hda1 onto the physical device > in question, and clearly it _is_ a meaninful operation to operate on the > physical device underlying /dev/hda1. > > So if you want to have a sane interface, you need to have a way to look up > the physical device that underlies /dev/hda1. > > Yet it clearly cannot be a symlink. > > QED.
Somehow I expect Al to step in with something like:
mount -t partfs /devfs/bus/... /dev/hda
:-)
bye, Roman
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