Tejun Heo wrote:
Since when is the major:minor view of devices the "standard" one that
userspace uses? Last I looked, userspace uses symlinks and lots of
other ways of directly accessing block devices in /dev/, and does not
rely on major:minor.
The fact that major:minor is the unique identifier of a device makes it
a bit special compared to other names on filesystem.
In particular, stat() and friends returns the device number, not a
device name.
-hpa
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