Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 7 Jan 2004 16:41:24 -0800 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: removable media revalidation - udev vs. devfs or static /dev |
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On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 04:32:26PM -0800, Martin J. Bligh wrote: > >> NOTE! We do have an alternative: if we were to just make block device > >> nodes support "readdir" and "lookup", you could just do > >> > >> open("/dev/sda/1" ...) > >> > >> and it magically works right. I've wanted to do this for a long time, but > >> every time I suggest allowing it, people scream. > > > > Hm, that would be nice. I don't remember seeing it being proposed > > before, what are the main complaints people have with this? > > Couldn't the partitions go under "/dev/sdaX/{1,2,3}" and solve the same > problem without doing magic on the devices?
No, that's not the point. As discussed on irc, I think you now understand the issue (partitions not being present, media changed without kernel knowing about it, etc.)
thanks,
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