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Date: Sun, 5 May 2002 00:24:53 +0200
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
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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
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