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Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2002 10:55:45 -0700 (PDT)
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
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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). 

		Linus

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