Subject: Re: labelfs
To: der Mouse <mouse@Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA>
From: Bill Studenmund <skippy@macro.Stanford.EDU>
List: current-users
Date: 11/09/1998 10:32:59
On Sat, 7 Nov 1998, der Mouse wrote:

> That one relates to the character/block device split.  Everything is
> looking workable, except for providing raw devices corresponding to the
> block devices provided by the labelfs mount.  The problem is, how do I
> find the character device corresponding to the underlying block device?
> Without that, I can't see how to provide raw devices.

The only thing which comes to mind is the chrtoblktab, which maps
character majors to block majors. If you walked that, and made char devs
for the non-NODEV entries, you should be fine.

Take care,

Bill