On Thu, Apr 13, 2000 at 12:10:47PM -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> >On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, Alan Cox wrote:
> >>You dont care what drive is where, you care what file system is where. Thats
> >>what UUID's are for
> Ricky Beam replies:
> > 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.
> Actually, MS-DOS formatted floppies have had a serial number since the
> beginning of time:
Uh... Just to pick a nit. No. That little feature was added
either late in the MS-DOS 3.30 days or early in 4.0, I really forget
exactly when. I THINK it was a DOS 4.0 feature. Earlier versions of
MS-DOS did NOT have serial numbers on them. Now, if we count the
beginning of time to be BL/AL (Before Linux / After Linux) then I guess
you could say that non-serialized DOS disks are BL and that DOS floppies
have had a serial number since the beginning of Linux Time. :-)
> webber:~> mdir
> Volume in drive A has no label
> Volume Serial Number is E341-3415
> Directory for A:/
> [snip]]
>
> Cheers, Andreas
> --
> Andreas Dilger \ "If a man ate a pound of pasta and a pound of antipasto,
> \ would they cancel out, leaving him still hungry?"
> http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/ -- Dogbert
Mike
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