From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Martin Wilck Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 17:17:56 +0000 Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] GUID filesystem+device identification ? 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-ia64@vger.kernel.org > Having it in ther kernel would be nicer and shouldn't be that difficult, > on the other hand it'll need a consensus on wether the kernel should look > at every partition on startup - IIRC some people where opposed to such > soloutions in the past. > The kernel looks at partition type GUID of all partitions already (in fs/partitions/efi.c), all it would need to do apart from that look at the Unique GUID as well and create a GUID->device table somewhere. Cheers, Martin -- Martin Wilck FSC EP PS DS1, Paderborn Tel. +49 5251 8 15113