Re: devfs persistence

From: Stephen C. Tweedie (sct@redhat.com)
Date: Tue May 02 2000 - 09:57:28 EST


Hi,

On Tue, May 02, 2000 at 04:22:17PM +0200, Andries Brouwer wrote:
> On Tue, May 02, 2000 at 09:25:23AM +0100, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:
>
> > Perhaps, but you have to store the uuid somewhere. You can't store it in
> > the raw device that the user sees, because the whole point is to make
> > what looks like a completely empty device appear to have a uuid. So,
> > you either put a superblock into a partition and make a separate
> > logical device, or you put the uuid in the partition table --- which
> > you cannot do with msdos partitions. You're left with the raid0
> > superblock type of solution as basically the only alternative.
>
> Nobody says we have to use msdos partitions.

No, but a general-purpose solution has to work with them.

--Stephen

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