Re: devfs again, (was RE: USB device allocation)
Khimenko Victor (khim@sch57.msk.ru)
Fri, 8 Oct 1999 20:05:58 +0400 (MSD)
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.
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