Re: CD writing in future Linux (stirring up a hornets' nest)

From: Christopher Friesen
Date: Fri Feb 10 2006 - 09:43:39 EST


Joerg Schilling wrote:
"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@xxxxxxx> wrote:

Can you please list the POSIX standard, section, and line number which
states that a particular device must always have the same st_rdev
across reboots, and hot plugs/unplugs?


A particular file on the system must not change st_dev while the system
is running.

http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/basedefs/sys/stat.h.html


I don't actually see that requirement listed there. It says that st_dev must be unique, and that all files are uniquely identified by st_ino and st_dev.

There's nothing there that says the mapping cannot change with time...just that it has to be unique.

Chris
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