Re: kernel-managed /dev, revisited

Werner Almesberger (almesber@lrc.di.epfl.ch)
Tue, 15 Jul 1997 18:12:30 +0200 (MET DST)

Alan Cox wrote:
> [ Mounting based on volume labels ] wants to be done via user space except
> for rootfs though.

Why ? Just pick a boot parameter name for the rootfs label and let initrd
handle it. If the label isn't found, it can always fall back to something
else.

By the way, somebody said that not all file systems support volume labels.
That's true, but we can always create a naming convention for a regular
file containing the volume label, e.g. <mount>/.volume_label or even
<mount>/VOLUME.LBL ;-), so at least all the usual r/w disk devices could
be handled.

- Werner

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