Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 10 Feb 2006 08:45:32 -0600 | From | "Christopher Friesen" <> | Subject | Re: CD writing in future Linux (stirring up a hornets' nest) |
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Joerg Schilling wrote: > "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> 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.
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