Re: Request: removal of fs/fs.h/super_block.u to enable partition locking

[Alan Cox]

> I'm trying to look out for tired sys-admins who might 
> destroy my application's partition not knowing
> what a particular empty-looking partition is used for.

You are not going to stop a tired sysadmin doing something daft. You can
certainly create a GPL'd raw partition as a file fs (I believe someone did
that so INN could mmap raw on a device)

However you don't need to remove anything for that