Re: UUIDs (and devfs and major/minor numbers)

Jeff Garzik (jgarzik@pobox.com)
Thu, 17 Jun 1999 09:00:25 -0400 (EDT)

On Thu, 17 Jun 1999 tytso@mit.edu wrote:
> Instead, the kernel should be exporting sufficient information so that a
> user-mode daemon can provide whatever interesting naming scheme (and
> that naming scheme might include device names based on the UUID or the
> fslabel in the ext2 device, or something else far more general than what
> kernel-space code can provide.)

Can it be done in user space while still eliminating the need for device
major/minor numbers?

Thanks,

Jeff

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