Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: UUIDs (and devfs and major/minor numbers) | Date | Sun, 20 Jun 1999 21:22:43 -0400 | From | "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" <> |
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In message <19990620183233.A7652@chelm.cs.nmt.edu>, yodaiken@chelm.cs.nmt.edu w rites: +----- | On Sun, Jun 20, 1999 at 09:02:07PM -0400, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote: | > | But that means if you change order of how disks plug into a scsi bus, | > | or you move a disk from one to another bus, names change. That's ok for | > | you? | > | > The USB guy noted that the "unique device IDs" aren't. You want it to be | > based on media? Does that mean my zip drive's name changes when I swap | > disks?! | | On the other hand someone else might want to be able to find the video | camera after she moves it to another spot on the USB chain. +--->8
And just how were you planning to find it when it doesn't have a unique identifier?
-- brandon s. allbery [os/2][linux][solaris][japh] allbery@kf8nh.apk.net system administrator [WAY too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu carnegie mellon / electrical and computer engineering KF8NH We are Linux. Resistance is an indication that you missed the point.
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