Re: UUIDs (and devfs and major/minor numbers)

yodaiken@chelm.cs.nmt.edu
Sun, 20 Jun 1999 18:32:33 -0600

On Sun, Jun 20, 1999 at 09:02:07PM -0400, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote:
> | But that means if you change order of how disks plug into a scsi bus,
> | or you move a disk from one to another bus, names change. That's ok for
> | you?
> +--->8
>
> The USB guy noted that the "unique device IDs" aren't. You want it to be
> based on media? Does that mean my zip drive's name changes when I swap
> disks?!

On the other hand someone else might want to be able to find the video
camera after she moves it to another spot on the USB chain.


>
> --
> brandon s. allbery [os/2][linux][solaris][japh] allbery@kf8nh.apk.net
> system administrator [WAY too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu
> carnegie mellon / electrical and computer engineering KF8NH
> We are Linux. Resistance is an indication that you missed the point.

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