From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Subject: Re: /dev/btrfs-control
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2010 19:54:30 +0100
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To: Michael Niederle <mniederle@gmx.at>
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On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 17:37, Michael Niederle <mniederle@gmx.at> wrote:
> Some btrfs-tools make use of "/dev/btrfs-control".
>
> How should I create this node? Is this a block or a character device (I suppose
> it should be a character device), which major and minor numbers should be
> assigned?

It's a char device node:
  $ cat /sys/class/misc/btrfs-control/dev
  10:62

Kay