Andrew Morton wrote:
>On Wed, 12 Jul 2006 12:42:28 -0400
>Jeff Mahoney <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> 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.
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Isn't better to ask why there is a problem with the /'s? It would be
bad for Linux as a design to prevent passing arbitrary tail ends of
filenames off to arbitrary plugins of some kind. In general, in
namespace design, you want to allow delegating the job of
resolving/interpreting the tail end of a file that the front end has
identified as something that can interpret it.
Forgive me, I probably understand something wongly about procfs and this
issue....
Hans
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