Re: [RFD w/info-PATCH] device arguments from lookup, partion code

From: Alexander Viro (viro@math.psu.edu)
Date: Sat May 19 2001 - 12:36:30 EDT

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    On Sat, 19 May 2001, Alan Cox wrote:

    > > Now that I'm awake and refreshed, yeah, that's awful. But
    > > echo "hot-add,slot=5,device=/dev/sda" >/dev/md0/control *is* sane. Heck,
    > > the system can even send back result codes that way.
    >
    > Only to an English speaker. I suspect Quebec City canadians would prefer a
    > different command set.

    Alan, I'm not a native speaker and I had worked with system that got names
    of utilities translated to Russian.

    It's was hell. And I don't think that replacing compress (or ΠΑΛΥΚ) with
    42A1769 would make it better.

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