Re: Of removable devices

From: Stephen C. Tweedie (sct@redhat.com)
Date: Fri Feb 25 2000 - 08:41:11 EST


Hi,

On Thu, 24 Feb 2000 22:18:03 +0300 (MSK), "Khimenko Victor"
<khim@sch57.msk.ru> said:

> There ARE such way: both FAT and EXT2FS use serial numbers. Of course it's
> filesystem-specific thing but two mentioned above are by far most common ones
> in Linux world.

But there is no knowledge of such things in the block device or VFS
layers, and old ext2 filesystems won't necessarily have a uuid. The
potential for things going wrong is awesome.

--Stephen

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