Re: devfs - why not ?

Andreas Dilger (adilger@home.com)
Thu, 13 Apr 2000 12:10:47 -0600 (MDT)

>On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, Alan Cox wrote:
>>You dont care what drive is where, you care what file system is where. Thats
>>what UUID's are for

Ricky Beam replies:
> Bullshit! Let us take as an example, removable media -- a floppy drive. At
> some point, one will need the ability to format the floppy in that drive.
> It _has_ _no_ _filesystem_, thus UUID is a worthless pile of doggy do.

Actually, MS-DOS formatted floppies have had a serial number since the
beginning of time:

webber:~> mdir
Volume in drive A has no label
Volume Serial Number is E341-3415
Directory for A:/
[snip]]

Cheers, Andreas

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                 \  would they cancel out, leaving him still hungry?"
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