Re: [PATCH] reiserfs: fix handling of device names with /'s in them

[H. Peter Anvin]

Followup to:  <20060712175542.108e6e37.akpm@xxxxxxxx>
By author:    Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> On Wed, 12 Jul 2006 12:42:28 -0400
> Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> >  On systems with block devices containing slashes (virtual dasd, cciss,
> >  etc), reiserfs will fail to initialize /proc/fs/reiserfs/<dev> due to
> >  it being interpreted as a subdirectory. The generic block device code
> >  changes the / to ! for use in the sysfs tree. This patch uses that
> >  convention.
> 
> Isn't it a bit dumb of us to be putting slashes in the device names anyway?
>  It would be better, if poss, to alter dasd/cciss/etc and stop all these
> s@/@!@everywhere games.

A *lot* of people have been requesting more, not less, hierarchy in
the filenames in /dev, and by now there is plenty of history there,
too.  The convention needs to be consistent and stable, though.

	-hpa

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