Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 12 Jan 1998 08:02:41 +1100 | From | Richard Gooch <> | Subject | Re: no need for a devfs |
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Kai Henningsen writes: > pbrutsch@creighton.edu (Phil Brutsche) wrote on 07.01.98 in <Pine.HPP.3.95.980107213351.13482C-100000@bluejay.creighton.edu>: > > > No, please don't do this. It's too confusing. What's wrong with the > > current SCSI setup (/dev/sda, /dev/sda1, /dev/sda2, etc) in any case? > > It's fragile. But then, so is the proposed replacement.
How is devfs fragile?
> What you probably really want is something like this: > > * for each partition, determine a unique id somehow (ext2 already has > this, and so does FAT) > > * Use this id to identify the partition
Well, rather than some meaningless numerical ID, why not have a human-understandable string as the unique ID? Hey! That's what devfs uses! And you don't need /proc/discs because devfs has those entries.
Regards,
Richard....
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