Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 12 Jan 1998 17:27:18 +1100 | From | Kevin Lentin <> | Subject | Re: devfs patch v3 |
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On Sun, Jan 11, 1998 at 06:49:04AM -0500, Dave Cinege wrote: > 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.
One problem (even with my solution which was to store a table on the disk) is that, in the case of a kerneld system, the kernel doesn't know which driver to probe to find a disk it doesn't know about. If I mount /dev/sda6, the kernel knows to go get sd and scsi but if I mount /dev/usr it can have no idea. And going and probing all possible devices half defeats the point of kerneld. One possible solution is a mapping in conf.modules. Like alias filesystem_device_usr sd alias filesystem_device_mnt_cdrom sr
But it, once more, requires you to tell the system where the drives are which defeats the purpose.
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