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From(H. Peter Anvin)
SubjectRe: devfs patch v3
Date11 Jan 1998 19:00:30 GMT
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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