Re: [ANNOUNCE] udev 0.1 release

Joel Becker
2003-04-11T23:16:30Z

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

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