Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Sat, 12 Jul 1997 18:47:11 +0400 (EDT) | | From | Joseph Pranevich <> | | Subject | Re: kernel-managed /dev, revisited |
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On 11 Jul 1997, Miguel de Icaza wrote:
> > > One of my biggest Linux pet peeves is having to reshuffle my !@#$@! > > /etc/fstab every time I reshuffle my drives. [I do know about > > Youngdale's tools for this] Running a news server means many SCSI ids, > > many SCSI hosts, and a lot of reshuffling, on into the night... > > Actually, I like Ted's idea better: Have the kernel scan the disk > labels at boot time for every partition detected and grab a list of > the disk labels on those partitions (you will need to label your file > systems of course). > > And then, instead of using devices for mouting your file systems, you > just mount them by name: > > mount usr /usr > mount MyToys /opt >
Thid wouldn't be terribly hard to do. Well, not TERRIBLY hard. :)
At boot time, put simlinks (Or maybe even use the dcache :) ) for drive labels in something like /dev/volumes (this would have to be done AFTER mounting root, of course) Then, patch mount to also look in /dev/volumes when you aren't using /dev/* syntax. A pain, I admit, but not hard.
Too bad I have no reason to do any of this and probably won't. :)
Ciao
Joe Pranevich
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