From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
"Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] alternative API for raw devices
Date: Sun, 5 May 2002 00:24:53 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020504222453.GA110@elf.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0205011555450.12640-100000@weyl.math.psu.edu>
Hi!
> New option: CONFIG_RAW (tristate)
>
> With that animal enabled you can say
>
> # mount -t raw /dev/sda1 /dev/<whatever>
Are we going from "everything is a file" to everything is filesystem,
again?
Why not have /dev/sda1r from the beggining? Is this problem of not
enough majors?
Pavel
--
(about SSSCA) "I don't say this lightly. However, I really think that the U.S.
no longer is classifiable as a democracy, but rather as a plutocracy." --hpa
prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-05-05 9:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-05-01 20:12 [PATCH] alternative API for raw devices Alexander Viro
2002-05-01 21:01 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-05-01 21:44 ` Alexander Viro
2002-05-01 22:52 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-05-04 22:24 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
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