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SubjectRe: no need for a devfs
Hi!

> It's fragile. But then, so is the proposed replacement.
>
> What you probably really want is something like this:
>
> * for each partition, determine a unique id somehow (ext2 already has
> this, and so does FAT)

I like to copy partitions byte-to-byte. If I did this to what you
propose, I would break too many things.

> And it works for every disk type, not only SCSI disks.

It does not work for other SCSI devices, such as scanners.

Pavel

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I'm really pavel@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz. Pavel
Look at http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/ ;-).

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