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Subject: Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 18:54:38 +0100
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To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>, Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>, Alex Zarochentsev <zam@namesys.com>, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Alexander Lyamin aka FLX <flx@namesys.com>, ReiserFS List <reiserfs-list@namesys.com>

On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 10:29:45AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> >         /dev/hda/part1/ <- the filesystem inside partition 1
> 
> I don't think you can do that. The kernel has no idea how to mount the
> filesystem.

... and what's more, fundamental thing for mount is fs type, what to
do with device(s) (if any) and any other arguments is the filesystem's
business.