Messages in this thread | | | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] reiserfs: fix handling of device names with /'s in them | Date | Wed, 12 Jul 2006 22:23:12 -0700 (PDT) |
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Followup to: <20060712175542.108e6e37.akpm@osdl.org> By author: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > On Wed, 12 Jul 2006 12:42:28 -0400 > Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com> wrote: > > > On systems with block devices containing slashes (virtual dasd, cciss, > > etc), reiserfs will fail to initialize /proc/fs/reiserfs/<dev> due to > > it being interpreted as a subdirectory. The generic block device code > > changes the / to ! for use in the sysfs tree. This patch uses that > > convention. > > Isn't it a bit dumb of us to be putting slashes in the device names anyway? > It would be better, if poss, to alter dasd/cciss/etc and stop all these > s@/@!@everywhere games.
A *lot* of people have been requesting more, not less, hierarchy in the filenames in /dev, and by now there is plenty of history there, too. The convention needs to be consistent and stable, though.
-hpa
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