Re: devfs - why not ?

[Khimenko Victor]

In <[e-mail]> Andreas Dilger ([e-mail]) wrote:
>>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:

Are you joking ??? It was added very late in MS-DOS development cycle.
Only version 4.0 and above are using serial numbers.

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