From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 16 May 2001 14:37:39 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 16 May 2001 14:37:28 -0400 Received: from 216.41.5.host170 ([216.41.5.170]:63342 "EHLO habitrail.home.fools-errant.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 16 May 2001 14:37:24 -0400 Message-Id: <200105161837.f4GIb7u06525@habitrail.home.fools-errant.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.2 06/23/2000 with nmh-1.0.3 To: Helge Hafting cc: Oystein Viggen , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 16 May 2001 15:28:03 +0200." <3B028063.67442F62@idb.hist.no> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 14:37:07 -0400 From: Hacksaw Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org >This is the problem with all sorts of ID-based naming. In this case >the kernel could simply change the conflicting names a bit, >and leave the cleanup to the administrator. (Who probably >is around as he just inserted those disks....) NO, NO, NO, NO, NO. The kernel, when asked to report on the disks physically attached to the machine, should report the location and *volume* name. It should never just mount things when there is a conflict. Make the user resolve the conflict immediately by being more specific. Partition names are sacrosanct. They should always work within the relative filesystem. If I have a disk with /, /usr and /var, I want mentions of ../var to work correctly in scripts in usr, assuming I have usr and var mounted into /.