Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 11:54:53 +0100
From: Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de>
To: Joerg Schilling <schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: CD writing in future Linux (stirring up a hornets' nest)
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Joerg Schilling schrieb am 2006-02-13:

> I did say that stat->st_dev needs to be stable

Yeah right. And Earth turns into a tetrahedron at your command.
Dream on... but keep it for yourself.

And to shut this subthread for good, I searched the whole IEEE Std
1003.1, 2004 Edition - nothing states any stability for st_dev.

All you get with this standards are two uniqueness guarantees (i. e. no
duplicates at a certain point in time -- this does not imply any kind of
stability), namely:

1. st_dev changes across mounts (definitions) and

2. (st_dev,st_ino) tuples are unique (<sys/stat.h>)

Ready-made query:
<http://www.opengroup.org/cgi-bin/susv3search.pl?KEYWORDS=st_dev&CONTEXT=>

Please don't respond. You're wasting time.

-- 
Matthias Andree
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