Re: Request: removal of fs/fs.h/super_block.u to enable partition locking

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Wed Sep 19 2001 - 14:28:43 EST


> I'm trying to look out for tired sys-admins who might
> destroy my application's partition not knowing
> what a particular empty-looking partition is used for.

You are not going to stop a tired sysadmin doing something daft. You can
certainly create a GPL'd raw partition as a file fs (I believe someone did
that so INN could mmap raw on a device)

However you don't need to remove anything for that
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