linux-kernel - Re: Why does stat() return invalid st

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Message-ID: <4A8A0B76.1030800@rtr.ca>
Date:	Mon, 17 Aug 2009 22:01:26 -0400
From:	Mark Lord <lkml@....ca>
To:	Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...y.org>
Cc:	linux-btrfs@...r.kernel.org, Chris Mason <chris.mason@...cle.com>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Why does stat() return invalid st_dev field for btrfs ??

Kay Sievers wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 22:47, Mark Lord<lkml@....ca> wrote:
>> Chris / list,
>>
>> stat(2) seems to return invalid major/minor device info
>> for btrfs filesystems.
>>
>> Why?  Is this a bug?
> 
> This is not invalid and not a bug. It's a superblock without a device,
> and expected behavior.
> 
> There is no one-to-one relation from a btrfs mountpoint to a device,
> it's a tree, and therefore therefore there can not be a single
> major/minor.
..

Sure there is for the most common case.
When there is only a single device, stat() should return that device.
When there are several, it should do something different.

But really, it should be using DM/LVM when there are multiple devices.
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