! in disk device name?

[Dave Jones]

On Wed, Mar 29, 2006 at 09:49:01PM -0700, Jerry Williams wrote:
 > Looks like I have 2 device files.  Is this for selinux?
 > 
 > # ls -l /dev/ida* 
 > brwx------ 1 root root 72,  0 Mar 29 10:46 /dev/ida!c0d0 
 > brwx------ 1 root root 72,  1 Mar 29 10:46 /dev/ida!c0d0p1 
 > brwx------ 1 root root 72, 10 Mar 29 17:46 /dev/ida!c0d0p10 
 > brwx------ 1 root root 72,  2 Mar 29 10:46 /dev/ida!c0d0p2 
 > brwx------ 1 root root 72,  3 Mar 29 17:46 /dev/ida!c0d0p3 
 > brwx------ 1 root root 72,  4 Mar 29 10:46 /dev/ida!c0d0p4 
 > brwx------ 1 root root 72,  5 Mar 29 17:46 /dev/ida!c0d0p5 
 > brwx------ 1 root root 72,  6 Mar 29 17:46 /dev/ida!c0d0p6 
 > brwx------ 1 root root 72,  7 Mar 29 17:46 /dev/ida!c0d0p7 
 > brwx------ 1 root root 72,  8 Mar 29 10:46 /dev/ida!c0d0p8 
 > brwx------ 1 root root 72,  9 Mar 29 17:46 /dev/ida!c0d0p9 

looks like a udev bug.
the kernel exports it as /sys/block/ida!c0d0 (because '/'
in a name is invalid).  udev should be munging it back
to a slash.

		Dave

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