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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fs-private data in struct block_device
Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2004 00:23:45 +0100
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On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 11:21:37PM +0000, viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk wrote:
> Obvious: we need at least some rules regarding who can and who can not
> play with that field.  IOW, which filesystem?

Okay, let's make it more general.  Throw the filesystem completly out of
the few and say the private data can be used by the owner of that
blockdevice as established by bd_claim, okay?