Andrew Morton wrote: >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. > > > > Isn't better to ask why there is a problem with the /'s? It would be bad for Linux as a design to prevent passing arbitrary tail ends of filenames off to arbitrary plugins of some kind. In general, in namespace design, you want to allow delegating the job of resolving/interpreting the tail end of a file that the front end has identified as something that can interpret it.
Forgive me, I probably understand something wongly about procfs and this issue.... Hans
