Re: [xfs-masters] [PATCH] XFS: don't expose sysv device encoding in inode->i_rdev

2007-12-19 Thread Christoph Hellwig
I've sent Dave a patch yesterday that fixes the problem in an even nicer way by just removing the assignment in xfs_vn_mknod because we're doing the proper translation deeper down in the stack. The patch should already be on it's way to Linus. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsu

[PATCH] XFS: don't expose sysv device encoding in inode->i_rdev

2007-12-18 Thread Erez Zadok
I did some testing on special-file copyup in unionfs, whereby unionfs calls vfs_mknod on a lower f/s to create (copyup) a device. The copyup functionality worked fine when unionfs was stacked on top of all file systems other than xfs. I found out that when I create a device with on xfs, then I s