Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 13 Jan 2004 00:08:05 +0100 | From | "J.A. Magallon" <> | Subject | Re: removable media revalidation - udev vs. devfs or static /dev |
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On 01.12, Joel Becker wrote: > On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 10:49:03AM +0100, Gerd Knorr wrote: > > I also think you don't need *all* minors for removable media. I > > havn't seen removable media with extended partitions so far. IIRC zip > > floppys are using /dev/sda4 and most other ones either /dev/sda1 or > > /dev/sda directly, so we likely can catch 99% with just three device > > nodes. > > Ahh, but that's magic, and we don't want magic. Today, you just > 'magically' know that your camera card reader shows up at sda1. We
Or that a standard MacOS hfs+ drive (or usb flash) does not show at sdc9 (as it does, in fact...).
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