In <200004131810.e3DIAlY00738@webber.adilger.net> Andreas Dilger (adilger@home.com) 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:
Are you joking ??? It was added very late in MS-DOS development cycle.
Only version 4.0 and above are using serial numbers.
> webber:~> mdir
> Volume in drive A has no label
> Volume Serial Number is E341-3415
> Directory for A:/
> [snip]]
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