On Thu, 17 Jan 2013, Peter Stuge wrote:

> > > I mean: does the kernel
> > > only keep a single link from the filesystem to the block device,
> > > and nothing the other way around?
> > 
> > A block device can contain many filesystems: one in each partition.
> 
> I guess I have userspace bias; by block device I meant one
> major+minor combination, ie. either full device or partition.

I'm not an expert on this, but I'm not aware of any pointers going in 
the other direction.

Alan Stern

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