On Wed, 9 Oct 2002, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> i
> On Wed, 9 Oct 2002, Alexander Viro wrote:
> >
> > OK, call me dense, but what things are associated with partition aside of the
> > fact that it exists?
>
> Filesystems can be associated with one or more partitions. MD devices are
> associated with one or more partitions.
>
> Not disks. Partitions.
<groan>
Can you explain why "filesystem foo uses device bar" gives an object associated
with bar and "process baz has bar opened" doesn't?
"Associated with" is asymmetric in this case - just as for files and processes
holding them opened. We do have objects for process->file (/proc/<pid>/fd/*)
and we certainly don't have anything like that for other direction.
That's what I'm asking about - do we want to have objects on the _partition_
side of things that would require per-partition directory? Not on the
filesystem/swap/whatnot side...
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