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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Subject: Re: Filesystem creation
Date: Tue, 14 May 2002 18:47:14 +0100 (BST)
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> > That would break the expected but daft old Unix API
> 
> I have to admit that I didn't even know there was a Unix API to break
> and from a personal viewpoint I'd be a lot more interested in building
> compatibility to the current Linux system on the assumption that if the
> API is important in the Unix world as a whole, then Linux will already
> follow it, and if Linux doesn't, then the API can't be that important.

Linux fdisk/mkfs also behave the same wacky way

Alan