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    SubjectRe: CD writing in future Linux (stirring up a hornets' nest)
    "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> wrote:

    > On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 11:45:32AM +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote:
    > > If you did try to understand the reason why I did introduce the POSIX
    > > claim, you would know that if Linux did try to follow the POSIX rule,
    > > a side effect would be that removable devices need to have a stable
    > > mapping in the kernel
    >
    > It is _not_ a POSIX rule, as I and others have shown. You claimed it
    > was required by POSIX, but you are quite clearly incorrect. It has
    > never worked that way with Unix systems, and POSIX was always designed
    > to codify existing practice. On Unix systems fixed disks would and
    > did have their devices numbering schemes move around under a number of
    > conditions.

    If you believe this, pleace give evidence.

    I was quoting POSIX documents which prove my claims......
    Jörg

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