> In <19991008103905.M20185@henry.uncarved.co.uk> Sean Hunter (sean@uncarved.co.uk) wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Especally for MO disks where you are not aware about UUID :-/ No, it does not.
> More correct: SOMETIMES it works. Sometimes it is not. It's usefull feature
> but it's not solution for the whole problem.
Oh, and Label-mounting isn't that smart either; it's very common to use
the same label on a lot of disks (floppies/cd's/zip's etc.);
consider "MP3's", "BACKUP", "temporary" or "misc shit"
/David Weinehall
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