Re: devfs again, (was RE: USB device allocation)

danielt@digi.com
Fri, 8 Oct 1999 14:18:19 -0500 (CDT)


On Fri, 8 Oct 1999, Dan Hollis wrote:

> On Fri, 8 Oct 1999, Horst von Brand wrote:
> > BTW, the "devices get renamed" problem _is_ solved, and has been for
> > quite some time: You can mount by disk label or uuid, forget about the
> > device name.
>
> Completely wrong. /dev/sg* still move around, and what about /dev/st* ?
> And what about filesystems without uuid?
>
Not to mention the fact that devfs solves more problems than this.

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Daniel Taylor      Senior Test Engineer     Digi International
danielt@digi.com                             Open systems win.

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