Re: [PATCH] reiserfs: fix handling of device names with /'s in them

[Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>]

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Carlos Carvalho wrote:
> Shouldn't the replacement of / by some other character be done for all
> filesystems? If so shouldn't it be done in a single point for all of
> them? Isn't this the purpose of VFS?

This only applies to a corner case where the file system wants to use
the block device name as a pathname. In any other case, interpreting the
/ as a path separator would be the correct behavior. While a helper
function/macro may be appropriate, I don't think the VFS has any
business interpreting names automatically like that.

As stated before numerous times by both Andrew and myself, the correct
solution is to eliminate / from block device names. This patch was a
band-aid until that's done.

- -Jeff

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Jeff Mahoney
SUSE Labs
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