Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 9 Oct 2001 23:18:50 -0600 | From | Richard Gooch <> | Subject | RE: [PATCH] EFI GUID Partition Tables |
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Matt Domsch writes: > Richard and Andreas, thanks for your feedback. > > Would it be possible to put this somewhere else and/or rename it? It > > appears that GUIDs are really DCE UUIDs (which are used by > > other things > > like ext2, XFS, MD RAID, etc) so if we are "advertising" > > UUIDs from the > > kernel, we may as well make it "sensible" for other users. How about > > "/dev/dis[ck]s/uuid", unless there are other users of UUID > > identifiers? > > Yes, UUIDs and GUIDs are the same thing, fortunately. > I'll have to defer this to the author of this piece of code. Martin, any > reason why it shouldn't be renamed? Richard, any preferred name?
I'd prefer /dev/volumes/uuids/ Similarly, if label reading code is added, I'd like to see that put in /dev/volumes/labels/
Regards,
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