Re: devfs patch v3

Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.CSIRO.AU)
Mon, 12 Jan 1998 08:06:27 +1100

Alan Cox writes:
> > Long ago I brought this up and also was looking for a way to access
> > partitions by their label (which FAT, and ext2 support). This removes the
> > possibility of partition shift and an unbootable/screwed up system if the
> > disks get changed.
>
> If you look around theres actually stuff for that in existance now. The
> current ex2fs keeps a UUID on each volume which is basically there for
> just that reason (UUID's are statistically unique keys for objects - there's
> an RFC for the UUID system too)

I hope there will be another way of identifying partitions. What
happens if the UUID is rooted? You need to be able to regenerate it.

Regards,

Richard....