From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Joel Becker Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 23:26:59 +0000 Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] udev 0.1 release Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 12:38:49PM -0700, Kevin P. Fleming wrote: > No doubt. And then you get into the situation where the devices themselves > have names and/or UUIDs, and you want that to be incorporated into the > device name. As it stands today, the only way to achieve that is pass that > information to device-mapper so it can create devices with those names. Oh, I don't want that ever in the name. I don't want to have to know much about my disks, except that once the association is there, it's there until I delete it. > Personally, I wouldn't be upset if _all_ "physical volumes" (meaning an > accessible block devices or portion thereof) appeared under /dev/volume/... > Even logical volumes could be done that way, since they have names as well. > I don't really see the need to have "whole disks", "partitions" and other > types of volumes in separate directories under /dev, but then I may be way > off base with the rest of the world wants to do :-) There are multiple reasons. I need to know what's a disk so I can configure it. I need to know what's a partition or a logical volume so I can put filesystems on it. It's always fun these days when folks try to use 'whole disks' and 'partitions' as equivalent things. They are indeed from a block device standpoint, but they aren't from an administration standpoint. Joel -- Life's Little Instruction Book #99 "Think big thoughts, but relish small pleasures." Joel Becker Senior Member of Technical Staff Oracle Corporation E-mail: joel.becker@oracle.com Phone: (650) 506-8127 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Etnus, makers of TotalView, The debugger for complex code. Debugging C/C++ programs can leave you feeling lost and disoriented. TotalView can help you find your way. Available on major UNIX and Linux platforms. Try it free. www.etnus.com _______________________________________________ Linux-hotplug-devel mailing list http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net Linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-hotplug-devel