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From: Richard Gooch <rgooch@ras.ucalgary.ca>
To: Matt_Domsch@Dell.com
Cc: adilger@turbolabs.com, torvalds@transmeta.com, alan@redhat.com,
	Martin.Wilck@Fujitsu-Siemens.com, viro@math.psu.edu,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: RE: [PATCH] EFI GUID Partition Tables
Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2001 23:18:50 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200110100518.f9A5Io516155@vindaloo.ras.ucalgary.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <71714C04806CD51193520090272892178BD6DB@ausxmrr502.us.dell.com>
In-Reply-To: <71714C04806CD51193520090272892178BD6DB@ausxmrr502.us.dell.com>

Matt Domsch writes:
> Richard and Andreas, thanks for your feedback.
> > Would it be possible to put this somewhere else and/or rename it?  It
> > appears that GUIDs are really DCE UUIDs (which are used by 
> > other things
> > like ext2, XFS, MD RAID, etc) so if we are "advertising" 
> > UUIDs from the
> > kernel, we may as well make it "sensible" for other users.  How about
> > "/dev/dis[ck]s/uuid", unless there are other users of UUID 
> > identifiers?
> 
> Yes, UUIDs and GUIDs are the same thing, fortunately.
> I'll have to defer this to the author of this piece of code.  Martin, any
> reason why it shouldn't be renamed?  Richard, any preferred name?

I'd prefer /dev/volumes/uuids/
Similarly, if label reading code is added, I'd like to see that put in
/dev/volumes/labels/

				Regards,

					Richard....
Permanent: rgooch@atnf.csiro.au
Current:   rgooch@ras.ucalgary.ca

  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-10-10  5:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-10-10  3:01 Matt_Domsch
2001-10-10  4:23 ` Andreas Dilger
2001-10-12 10:12   ` Martin Wilck
2001-10-10  5:18 ` Richard Gooch [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-10-10 22:08 Matt_Domsch
2001-10-09 17:15 Matt Domsch
2001-10-09 17:25 ` Richard Gooch
2001-10-12  8:31   ` Martin Wilck
2001-10-12 16:27     ` Andreas Dilger
2001-10-12 14:56   ` Richard Gooch
2001-10-09 21:03 ` Andreas Dilger

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