Re: [PATCH] alternative API for raw devices

From: Pavel Machek (pavel@ucw.cz)
Date: Sat May 04 2002 - 17:24:53 EST

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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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