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From: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
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On Wed, 9 Oct 2002, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> 
> 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). 

OK, call me dense, but what things are associated with partition aside of the
fact that it exists?

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