As mentioned before I don't think the cdev has any business in core VFS code. You must alredy have an anonymous block device for the st_dev value, please use that. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html