Re: removable media revalidation - udev vs. devfs or static /dev

Martin J. Bligh
2004-01-08T00:32:34Z

>> NOTE! We do have an alternative: if we were to just make block device
>> nodes support "readdir" and "lookup", you could just do
>>
>> open("/dev/sda/1" ...)
>>
>> and it magically works right. I've wanted to do this for a long time, but
>> every time I suggest allowing it, people scream.
>
> Hm, that would be nice. I don't remember seeing it being proposed
> before, what are the main complaints people have with this?

Couldn't the partitions go under "/dev/sdaX/{1,2,3}" and solve the same
problem without doing magic on the devices?

M.