Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 7 Aug 1998 19:16:47 -0700 (PDT) | From | "Jon M. Taylor" <> | Subject | Re: devfs |
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On Fri, 7 Aug 1998, Alan Cox wrote:
> > P.S. I'm not arguing for devfs per se; simply arguing for a "canonical, > > never-out-of-date /dev" and "devices named by SCSI id". > > Devices named by SCSI ID is IMHO a partial solution. I should be able to > take put a jaz disk of /home on any jaz drive on the machine and boot the > system happily.
You'll have to be the only person that can pull this trick though. If anyone else wants to do this, how is the kernel supposed to know whose /home to mount? If the kernel doesn't know in advance where the /home is located, it will have to search for it and it might find someone elses' on another Jaz drive somewhere.
If you could defer the mounting of /home until after you log in, you could encode a unique ID for your /home into /etc/passwd and the kernel would be able to probe all the available devices for your /home. But that better be your only /home anywhere on the network or you are back to the kernel not knowing which to mount.
Jon
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