Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 11 Jan 1998 18:49:03 +0100 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: no need for a devfs |
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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
-- I'm really pavel@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz. Pavel Look at http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/ ;-).
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