Re: UUIDs (and devfs and major/minor numbers)

yodaiken@chelm.cs.nmt.edu
Sun, 20 Jun 1999 18:04:01 -0600


On Sun, Jun 20, 1999 at 08:38:00PM -0400, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote:
> | So where do you want the authoritative name to come from? The disk? A
> | database?
> +--->8
>
> devfs uses the hardware address, which works for me...

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?
Perhaps one problem here is that some folks are also thinking about how
to handle this additional problem and how devfs will or will not interact
with any solution.

>
> --
> 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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