Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 12 Jan 1998 08:06:27 +1100 | From | Richard Gooch <> | Subject | Re: devfs patch v3 |
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Alan Cox writes: > > Long ago I brought this up and also was looking for a way to access > > partitions by their label (which FAT, and ext2 support). This removes the > > possibility of partition shift and an unbootable/screwed up system if the > > disks get changed. > > If you look around theres actually stuff for that in existance now. The > current ex2fs keeps a UUID on each volume which is basically there for > just that reason (UUID's are statistically unique keys for objects - there's > an RFC for the UUID system too)
I hope there will be another way of identifying partitions. What happens if the UUID is rooted? You need to be able to regenerate it.
Regards,
Richard....
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