How is devfs fragile?
> What you probably really want is something like this:
>
> * for each partition, determine a unique id somehow (ext2 already has
> this, and so does FAT)
>
> * Use this id to identify the partition
Well, rather than some meaningless numerical ID, why not have a
human-understandable string as the unique ID? Hey! That's what devfs
uses! And you don't need /proc/discs because devfs has those entries.
Regards,
Richard....