Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4

From: viro
Date: Thu Aug 26 2004 - 13:03:38 EST


On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 10:29:45AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > /dev/hda/part1/ <- the filesystem inside partition 1
>
> I don't think you can do that. The kernel has no idea how to mount the
> filesystem.

... and what's more, fundamental thing for mount is fs type, what to
do with device(s) (if any) and any other arguments is the filesystem's
business.
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