> Bullshit! Let us take as an example, removable media -- a floppy drive. At
> some point, one will need the ability to format the floppy in that drive.
> It _has_ _no_ _filesystem_, thus UUID is a worthless pile of doggy do.
UUID solves all the interesting cases. Lets take your system. I put the floppy
in a different drive. Oh dear game over you lose.
> Let us further take as an example, a file system that has no UUID...
There arent any obvious ones that dont have serial numbers
> realm since the beginning of time... /dev/sda is what device? Some form
> of direct mapping is a Very Good Thing (patent pending). If I have to
> hop on the Concord with a crate of crap, then so be it...
If you want to know what device sda is then ask it, its got ioctls. You can
even build a link farm at boot. However for most actual file system work
you want uuids. Especially once you get into things like fibrechannel disk
arrays
Alan
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Sat Apr 15 2000 - 21:00:21 EST