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

J.A. Magallon
2004-01-12T23:08:11Z

On 01.12, Joel Becker wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 10:49:03AM +0100, Gerd Knorr wrote:
> > I also think you don't need *all* minors for removable media. I
> > havn't seen removable media with extended partitions so far. IIRC zip
> > floppys are using /dev/sda4 and most other ones either /dev/sda1 or
> > /dev/sda directly, so we likely can catch 99% with just three device
> > nodes.
>
> Ahh, but that's magic, and we don't want magic. Today, you just
> 'magically' know that your camera card reader shows up at sda1. We

Or that a standard MacOS hfs+ drive (or usb flash) does not show at sdc9
(as it does, in fact...).

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