Re: devfs again, (was RE: USB device allocation)
Sean Hunter (sean@uncarved.co.uk)
Fri, 8 Oct 1999 10:39:05 +0100
On Thu, Oct 07, 1999 at 12:40:49PM -0700, Dan Hollis wrote:
> On Thu, 7 Oct 1999, Stephen Frost wrote:
> > devfs, for me at least, is mostly about having a nicer, cleaner /dev
> > nodes, ones that make more sense. (c1t1d0s0-style, not this /dev/sd[a,b,c]
> > junk).
>
> If a scsi device is pulled from a chain, all the other devices shift.
> It has been pointed out that this design is completely broken.
> devfs is one approach to fix it. (anyone have better ones?)
UUID-based mounting comes to mind. And it already works.
Sean
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