Re: extended paritions are evil.

Martin von Loewis (martin@mira.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de)
Mon, 9 Feb 1998 09:34:02 +0100

> When devfs was first described, one of the features was that certain
> devices which had "serial numbers" such as most hard disk file
> systems, would be represented as a /dev/volume/serial... which would be
> a symbolic link to the full address. Then the fstab entries could
> optionally reference a device independent of the hardware position.

I believe this is currently not implemented. I'm also not sure whether
this should be a kernel-mode feature; the kernel would need to know
where each file system puts the serial number. File systems vary
greatly in this respect.

Regards,
Martin
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