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Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2002 10:45:47 -0700 (PDT)
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
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On Wed, 9 Oct 2002, Alexander Viro wrote:
> 
> It makes sense, but that should be done for gendisk.  I.e. we should have
> (name, base, range) - not a node for each partition.

Actually, we _do_ want to have a node for each partition, if we want to
show the things that are associated with one particular partition. And we
do have those things - mounts and (onc eit's working again) LVM
relationships etc.

It's a perfectly valid question to ask "what partitions are part of this 
extended disk?" or "which partition is the backing store for this 
filesystem?".  Which implies that a partition is a real first-class 
entity, not just "one of a range".

		Linus

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