Messages in this thread | | | From | "Stephen C. Tweedie" <> | Date | Fri, 25 Feb 2000 13:41:11 +0000 (GMT) | Subject | Re: Of removable devices |
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Hi,
On Thu, 24 Feb 2000 22:18:03 +0300 (MSK), "Khimenko Victor" <khim@sch57.msk.ru> said:
> There ARE such way: both FAT and EXT2FS use serial numbers. Of course it's > filesystem-specific thing but two mentioned above are by far most common ones > in Linux world.
But there is no knowledge of such things in the block device or VFS layers, and old ext2 filesystems won't necessarily have a uuid. The potential for things going wrong is awesome.
--Stephen
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