Re: [PATCH] alternative API for raw devices

Pavel Machek (pavel@ucw.cz)
Sun, 5 May 2002 00:24:53 +0200


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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