From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 19 May 2001 14:22:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 19 May 2001 14:22:37 -0400 Received: from idiom.com ([216.240.32.1]:65032 "EHLO idiom.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 19 May 2001 14:22:29 -0400 Message-ID: <3B06B9A5.54C328C5@namesys.com> Date: Sat, 19 May 2001 11:21:25 -0700 From: Hans Reiser Organization: Namesys X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.4 i686) X-Accept-Language: en, ru MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chris Wedgwood CC: "Stephen C. Tweedie" , Michael Meissner , Miles Lane , Linux Kernel , "Vladimir V. Saveliev" Subject: Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants In-Reply-To: <3B0261EC.23BE5EF0@idb.hist.no> <031ypp1oi2.fsf@colargol.tihlde.org> <3B028063.67442F62@idb.hist.no> <990030651.932.3.camel@agate> <20010516121815.B16609@munchkin.spectacle-pond.org> <20010518151750.A10515@redhat.com> <20010519172932.C4434@metastasis.f00f.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Chris Wedgwood wrote: > > Or you can fall back to mounting by UUID, which is globally > unique and still avoids referencing physical location. You also > don't need to manually set LABELs for UUID to work: all e2fsprogs > over the past couple of years have set UUID on partitions, and > e2fsck will create a new UUID if it sees an old filesystem that > doesn't already have one. > > Other filesystems such as reiserfs at present don't have such a > thing. I brought this a while ago and in theory it's not too hard, we > just need to get Hans to officially designate part of the SB or > whatever for the UUID. > > --cw > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ work out a patch with monstr, and I am sure he will accept it. Hans