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

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Mon, 21 Jun 1999 11:39:44 +0100 (BST)


> that's not a devfs issue. Linux currently doesn't any mechanism for
> attaching labels to volumes, which imo would be the cleanest way. what

Thud. thud. thud.

Linux filesystems have label strings, even the DOS fs's have serial numbers
And note: per file system (ie partition) not per disk. Per disk labelling
is useless in the longer run because you may restore a single partition of
stuff to a different disk

Alan

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