Re: devfs patch v3
Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Sun, 11 Jan 1998 15:26:19 +0000 (GMT)
> Long ago I brought this up and also was looking for a way to access
> partitions by their label (which FAT, and ext2 support). This removes the
> possibility of partition shift and an unbootable/screwed up system if the
> disks get changed.
If you look around theres actually stuff for that in existance now. The
current ex2fs keeps a UUID on each volume which is basically there for
just that reason (UUID's are statistically unique keys for objects - there's
an RFC for the UUID system too)
Alan