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 05:50:16 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 2 Aug 2001 05:50:06 -0400 Received: from weta.f00f.org ([203.167.249.89]:46735 "HELO weta.f00f.org") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Thu, 2 Aug 2001 05:49:57 -0400 Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2001 21:50:41 +1200 From: Chris Wedgwood To: Borsenkow Andrej Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Persistent device numbers Message-ID: <20010802215041.B13136@weta.f00f.org> In-Reply-To: <000901c11b1c$a87b1f40$21c9ca95@mow.siemens.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <000901c11b1c$a87b1f40$21c9ca95@mow.siemens.ru> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.18i X-No-Archive: Yes Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 10:30:44AM +0400, Borsenkow Andrej wrote: Do I miss something and Linux has such mechanism? what problem are you trying to solve? if its disk moving about, then you need to do things differently anyhow, look at devfs if you really want 'static' device assignments --cw