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From: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] reiserfs: fix handling of device names with /'s in them
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 11:21:25 -0700
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To: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
Cc: Carlos Carvalho <carlos@fisica.ufpr.br>, ReiserFS List <reiserfs-list@namesys.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>

Jeff Mahoney wrote:

>
>
> As stated before numerous times by both Andrew and myself, the correct
> solution is to eliminate / from block device names.

Why?  It is elegant to have those /'s....   Just create the directory,
how is that hard?

> This patch was a
> band-aid until that's done.
>
> -Jeff
>
> --
> Jeff Mahoney
> SUSE Labs