From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 2 Aug 2001 13:16:01 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 2 Aug 2001 13:15:51 -0400 Received: from nat-pool-meridian.redhat.com ([199.183.24.200]:35273 "EHLO devserv.devel.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 2 Aug 2001 13:15:40 -0400 Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2001 13:15:48 -0400 From: Pete Zaitcev Message-Id: <200108021715.f72HFmY07505@devserv.devel.redhat.com> To: Andrej.Borsenkow@mow.siemens.ru, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Persistent device numbers In-Reply-To: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > 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