From: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>
To: Andrej.Borsenkow@mow.siemens.ru, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Persistent device numbers
Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2001 13:15:48 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200108021715.f72HFmY07505@devserv.devel.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mailman.996733981.23626.linux-kernel2news@redhat.com>
In-Reply-To: <mailman.996733981.23626.linux-kernel2news@redhat.com>
> As far as I understand, currently kernel assigns device numbers dynamically.
That's why mount by label exists
[zaitcev@niphredil zaitcev]$ cat /etc/fstab
LABEL=/ / ext2 defaults 1 1
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
> Do I miss something and Linux has such mechanism?
Not really... Gooch says it is needed and he has a patch for it,
check it out too. Most of it can be resolved by other means.
-- Pete
next parent reply other threads:[~2001-08-02 17:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2001-08-02 17:15 ` Pete Zaitcev [this message]
2001-08-02 6:30 Borsenkow Andrej
2001-08-02 9:50 ` Chris Wedgwood
2001-08-02 10:20 ` Christoph Hellwig
2001-08-02 17:06 ` Greg KH
2001-08-02 14:37 ` Alan Cox
2001-08-02 20:05 ` Kurt Garloff
2001-08-08 7:27 ` Borsenkow Andrej
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