Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751776AbWBMOKK (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Feb 2006 09:10:10 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751781AbWBMOKJ (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Feb 2006 09:10:09 -0500 Received: from mailhub.fokus.fraunhofer.de ([193.174.154.14]:45034 "EHLO mailhub.fokus.fraunhofer.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751776AbWBMOKI (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Feb 2006 09:10:08 -0500 From: Joerg Schilling Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 15:07:55 +0100 To: schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de, jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de Cc: tytso@mit.edu, peter.read@gmail.com, mj@ucw.cz, matthias.andree@gmx.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jim@why.dont.jablowme.net Subject: Re: CD writing in future Linux (stirring up a hornets' nest) Message-ID: <43F092BB.nailKUSH1YIP1@burner> References: <43EB7BBA.nailIFG412CGY@burner> <43EC71FB.nailISD31LRCB@burner> <20060210114721.GB20093@merlin.emma.line.org> <43EC887B.nailISDGC9CP5@burner> <43EC8E18.nailISDJTQDBG@burner> <43EC93A2.nailJEB1AMIE6@burner> <20060210141651.GB18707@thunk.org> <43ECA3FC.nailJGC110XNX@burner> In-Reply-To: User-Agent: nail 11.2 8/15/04 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1055 Lines: 28 Jan Engelhardt wrote: > >> > > The struct stat->st_rdev field need to be stable too to comply to POSIX? > >> > Correct. > >A particular file on the system must not change st_dev while the system > >is running. > > > > Attention, I asked for st_rdev (=major/minor as presented in ls -l), > not st_dev (major/minor of the disk /dev is on). I was of course talking about st_dev But as a note: st_rdev from the device carrying the FS becomes st_dev for all files inside a particular FS. J?rg -- EMail:joerg@schily.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de (home) J?rg Schilling D-13353 Berlin js@cs.tu-berlin.de (uni) schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/old/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/