On Wed, 9 Oct 2002, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> On Wed, 9 Oct 2002, Alexander Viro wrote:
> >
> > Sorry, no. Which partition is the backing store for this filesystem is
> > question to some filesystem drivers. Not even every fs driver that
> > happens to use block devices - some of them use more than one (e.g
> > for journal).
> >
> > IOW, it's not a partition property.
>
> I didn't say it was a partition. I said it was a _filesystem_ property.
> And yes, it can be a list of multiple partitions - the same way LVM is a
> list of _multiple_ partitions.
>
> The point being that a partition is a real entity, and should have a node
> of its own - so that you can point to it (and "node" may of course be
> "subdirectory" if you want to have multiple things associated with it).
OK, call me dense, but what things are associated with partition aside of the
fact that it exists?
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