Re: devfs again, (was RE: USB device allocation)
Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH (allbery@kf8nh.apk.net)
Fri, 08 Oct 1999 06:42:20 -0400
In message <19991008103905.M20185@henry.uncarved.co.uk>, "Sean Hunter"
writes:
+-----
| On Thu, Oct 07, 1999 at 12:40:49PM -0700, Dan Hollis wrote:
| > On Thu, 7 Oct 1999, Stephen Frost wrote:
| > > devfs, for me at least, is mostly about having a nicer, cleaner /dev
| > > nodes, ones that make more sense. (c1t1d0s0-style, not this /dev/sd[a,b,c
| > > junk).
| >
| > If a scsi device is pulled from a chain, all the other devices shift.
| > It has been pointed out that this design is completely broken.
| > devfs is one approach to fix it. (anyone have better ones?)
|
| UUID-based mounting comes to mind. And it already works.
+--->8
UUID-based mounting is a good thing. But in this case it is a HACK to get
around the fact that SCSI devices can move around on linux because you have
added or removed other devices --- which is (a) stupid and (b) wrong.
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carnegie mellon / electrical and computer engineering kf8nh
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