>i think much of the conceptual complexity here comes from the fact that we
>use PC style partitions, and do not have clear distinctions between these
>'legacy storage units' and higher level storage concepts. We have 'simple
>MSDOS partitions', 'striped partitions', maybe 'LVM managed partitions',
>and the concept line gets blurred.
>
>i think the right way to see this is to put away PC style partitioning.
I'm confused. How do PC style partitions even enter into the
discussion? Isn't a block device a block device, whether it's some
small part of a disk, another small part of a disk, the whole disk,
or Something Else?
> Dont try to
>handle the 'add this partition to ext3fs' case, it violates the
>abstraction barrier.
Eh? I'd think that `add this partition to <whatever>' would be a
useful thing; it's "here, Mr. Filesystem, have a new block of data
to scribble on!" with part of a disk instead of something else.
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david parsons \bi/ slightly confused.
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