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Subject: Re: Why /dev/sdc1 doesn't show up...
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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On Mon, 2002-11-18 at 23:49, Rusty Russell wrote:
> In message <Pine.GSO.4.21.0211180403440.23400-100000@steklov.math.psu.edu> you 
> write:
> > Not really.  For case in question (block devices) there is only one path
> > and I'd rather keep it that way, thank you very much.
> 
> See other posting.  This is a fundamental design decision, and it's
> not changing.  Sorry.

So is the block layer one, and it was fundamentally designed first 8)

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