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From: viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fs-private data in struct block_device
Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2004 23:28:32 +0000
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On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 12:23:45AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> 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?

OK...  One question: what rules do you want wrt multiple claims with the
same owner?