On Wed, 12 Jul 2006 12:42:28 -0400
Jeff Mahoney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>  On systems with block devices containing slashes (virtual dasd, cciss,
>  etc), reiserfs will fail to initialize /proc/fs/reiserfs/<dev> due to
>  it being interpreted as a subdirectory. The generic block device code
>  changes the / to ! for use in the sysfs tree. This patch uses that
>  convention.

Isn't it a bit dumb of us to be putting slashes in the device names anyway?
 It would be better, if poss, to alter dasd/cciss/etc and stop all these
s@/@[EMAIL PROTECTED] games.

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