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27. Devices and udev - Device Nodes - ¿Filesystem?

I don't understand why in Section 27. "Devices and udev", Page "Device Nodes", the illustrations shows a block "filesystem" between the blocks "block driver" and "block node"?

Looking at the "ls -l /dev" output before, the block node "sda" has the same major as its partition block nodes "sda1" and "sda2", and I believe this is completely independent of whatever filesystem-or-not the partition holds. Of course, in order to mount it, there should be a filesystem; but the pure "block node" of a partition should already show up in the VFS (under /etc) regardless of formatting (otherwise, how to run mkfs on it?).

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    Yes indeed, the order should be vfs<->fs<->node<->hw ; i.e., file system and node should be swapped. I think an redraw of the graphic at some point introduced the error. We will fix.

    All scsi disks have major number 8, with varying minor numbers. In an MBR system you have 16 for each physical drive, for example on my system which currently has 4 disks:

    1. c8:/>ls -l /dev/sd*
    2. brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 0 Feb 7 07:13 /dev/sda
    3. brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 1 Feb 7 07:13 /dev/sda1
    4. brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 2 Feb 7 07:13 /dev/sda2
    5. brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 16 Feb 7 07:13 /dev/sdb
    6. brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 17 Feb 7 07:13 /dev/sdb1
    7. brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 18 Feb 7 07:13 /dev/sdb2
    8. brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 32 Feb 7 07:13 /dev/sdc
    9. brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 33 Feb 7 07:13 /dev/sdc1
    10. brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 34 Feb 7 07:13 /dev/sdc2
    11. brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 48 Feb 7 07:13 /dev/sdd
    12. brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 49 Feb 7 07:13 /dev/sdd1
    13. brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 51 Feb 7 07:13 /dev/sdd3
    14. brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 53 Feb 7 07:13 /dev/sdd5
    15. brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 54 Feb 7 07:13 /dev/sdd6

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