Messages in this thread |  | | | From | (H. Peter Anvin) | | Subject | Re: devfs patch v3 | | Date | 11 Jan 1998 19:00:30 GMT |
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Followup to: <E0xrLqW-0003gy-00@Schizo.psychosis.com> By author: "Dave Cinege" <dcinege@psychosis.com> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > Long ago I brought this up and also was looking for a way to access > partitions by their label (which FAT, and ext2 support). This removes the > possibility of partition shift and an unbootable/screwed up system if the > disks get changed. > > If it hasen't been brought up I here by throw it into the loop. (I'll start > following this thread from now on) >
There has been a problem (scsidev, I think) to do this in user-space for a long time...
I still think devfs is a solution in search of a problem, which seems to be the immediate reaction every four months once it it clear devfs doesn't solve the problem that it is always proposed to solve. I see absolutely no benefit to doing in locked-down kernel memory what can be done just as well on eminently swappable disk.
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