Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: UUIDs (and devfs and major/minor numbers) | Date | Sun, 20 Jun 1999 21:02:07 -0400 | From | "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" <> |
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In message <19990620180401.A7575@chelm.cs.nmt.edu>, yodaiken@chelm.cs.nmt.edu w rites: +----- | On Sun, Jun 20, 1999 at 08:38:00PM -0400, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote: | > | So where do you want the authoritative name to come from? The disk? A | > | database? | > | > devfs uses the hardware address, which works for me... | | 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?!
-- 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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