Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 20 Jun 1999 18:32:33 -0600 | From | yodaiken@chelm ... | Subject | Re: UUIDs (and devfs and major/minor numbers) |
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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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