Messages in this thread | | | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: LVM 1.0 release decision | Date | 11 May 2001 08:42:13 -0700 |
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Followup to: <E14yDyI-0000yE-00@the-village.bc.nu> By author: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > A new format is fine but import old ones properly. And if you do a new format > stop using kdev_t on disk - it will change size soon >
Not to mention that it might end up being a pointer, or go away (to be replaced with kchrdev_t, kblkdev_t or something like that.)
*** kdev_t does not belong in user space or on disk; it is a kernel transient object. ***
Personally I can't believe this code went into the mainstream kernel *at all* with this wart in it.
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