> On Mon, 13 Apr 1998, Dwight Hubbard wrote:
>
> > Michel wrote:
> >
> > How about naming the devices by the label on the disk instead of how it's
> > physically connected. I.E. a disk with a label of "foo" could be accessed as
> > /dev/disk/foo in addition to the current naming convention of /dev/sdd. Then
> > if the scsi ID changes or the disk gets hooked to a different controller it
> > still is acessed as /dev/disk/foo.
>
> I believe this has been discussed before, and it seemed to go nowhere,
> despite it's usefulness.
>
> The problem is, do you want the kernel to basically be creating symlinks
> at bootup? Is that really the place? I'd prefer a user-space utility that
> created those symlinks, which I could run *after* I boot.
Actually, I would prefer the kernel create the device special files in a directory
under /proc that is symlinked to /dev/disk.
Doesn't devfs do something like this already??
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