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Subject: Re: [PATCH] reiserfs: use open_bdev_excl
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 11:24:48 -0700
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On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:13:22 +0200
Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 26, 2007 at 04:31:01PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > Use the proper helper to open a blockdevice by name for filesystem
> > use, this makes sure it's properly claimed (also added for open-by-number)
> > and gets rid of the struct file abuse.
> > 
> > Tested by mounting a reiserfs filesystem with external journal.
> 
> Any reason this still didn't get sent to Linus?

no, I just filed it in the wrong place.  It'll get there.