Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Fri, 25 Feb 2000 16:42:31 +0300 (MSK) | | From | Khimenko Victor <> | | Subject | Re: Of removable devices |
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On Fri, 25 Feb 2000, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:
> 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. > Ok. So "specolative removal" way is also not reliable. Fine. It means that the only realible way is good old mount/umount... And this way is in kernel for ages... So no changes are necessary...
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