On Tue, May 02, 2000 at 03:57:28PM +0100, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:
> On Tue, May 02, 2000 at 04:22:17PM +0200, Andries Brouwer wrote:
> > > Perhaps, but you have to store the uuid somewhere. You can't store it in
> > > the raw device that the user sees, because the whole point is to make
> > > what looks like a completely empty device appear to have a uuid. So,
> > > you either put a superblock into a partition and make a separate
> > > logical device, or you put the uuid in the partition table --- which
> > > you cannot do with msdos partitions. You're left with the raid0
> > > superblock type of solution as basically the only alternative.
> >
> > Nobody says we have to use msdos partitions.
>
> No, but a general-purpose solution has to work with them.
I wouldnt mind if only Linux-type partition tables had room for
volume labels and the like. People that really want to have both
DOS type partition tables and disk/partition volume labels and uuids
might use a Linux-type "index" subpartition of a DOS type partition table.
Andries
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