Re: Did you try devlabel

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 06:38:59PM -0500, Gary_Lerhaupt@Dell.com wrote:
> Assuming I get the rc.sysinit patch right, you can create a symlink to your
> swap partition and then use this in /etc/fstab.  In fact, you can do this
> for all your partitions to keep from failures if your device names shuffle
> (basically where e2label wont let you label).  Separately its also good for
> rawdevices. 

Ah, that's very handy, I know lots of people that have been wanting that
for some time.  Does this also trigger on the SCSI disk add that I think
/sbin/hotplug gets called on in 2.5?

> Hotplug wise, I think it is also valuable especially if you hotplug various
> storage types.

Ok, I'll trust you on this one :)

> As for driverfs, which I haven't really worked with, I figured I could start
> using that directly for the UUIDs instead of the methods that are currently
> being used (scsi inquiries, /proc/ide/hd#/identify)

Yes, the UUIDs should soon be exported through driverfs, and that will
help you out a lot.  I think there are some SCSI developers working on
this right now.

Hm, as you are really only needing a hook into the existing hotplug
scripts to run your program, isn't there some generic way of doing this
already without needing a patch?

thanks,

greg k-h


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