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From(John G. Alvord)
SubjectRe: no need for a devfs
DateMon, 12 Jan 1998 08:42:22 GMT
On Sun, 11 Jan 1998 18:49:03 +0100, Pavel Machek <pavel@elf.ucw.cz>
wrote:

>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.

If there is a duplcate automatic symbolic  name, the code could leave a
duplicate physcial name without a symbolic mount point.  The system (or
the etc/fstab?) could mount the device with a user supplied name later
in initial or during later  processing. This would also handle cases
like scanners which wouldn't have data to be read for a symbolic mount
point name.

john alvord

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