Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 21 Jun 1999 16:59:11 +0100 (MET) | From | DAVID BALAZIC <> | Subject | Re: UUIDs (and devfs and major/minor numbers) |
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Theodore Y. Ts'o (tytso@mit.edu) wrote on Fri, 18 Jun 1999 :
> I do agree with you having having a unique string-based, > self-descriptive device ID is a good thing, but instead of using that ID > *instead* of the major/minor devices, why not have the kernel export a > mapping table between the string ID and the major/minor devices to the > user mode daemon, and then letting the user mode deamon crate the > appropriate device files if necessary? This solves the NFS backwards > compatibility problem, for example.
What NFS backwards compatibility problem ?
The only dev<->NFS problem that I know is, that NFS would have problems with 16:16 and/or 32:32 major:minor numbers. And that is not related to devfs ( well it is , but is to static /dev the same way )
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