On Wed, 9 Oct 2002, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> In other words, if you think that it is reasonable to have an assocation
> from the MD device to the list of partitions that are part of that MD
> device, then you _need_ to have a "partition node", because otherwise you
> cannot have the pointer to it. See?
>
> So your "partition side" vs "filesystem side" thing doesn't matter. It
> doesn't matter which side the associations are, you need to have a node to
> associate _with_.
>
> Noth sides need a node. Even if the relationship is only going in one
> direction.
*eeek*
Even aside of the problems with putting filesystems (and filesystem types)
into driverfs (can_unload() for each fs module?), partitions _ARE_ reused.
So logics with ->release() will be a killer.
Do you really want to do that?
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