Re: Persistent device numbers

Pete Zaitcev (zaitcev@redhat.com)
Thu, 2 Aug 2001 13:15:48 -0400


> 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
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