What is the communication between user space and kernel
that transports device identities?
It doesn't change, the same symbolic names still work.
But today, unless you think of devfs or so, device identities
are not transported by symbolic names. They are given by
device numbers.
[Yes,
On Monday 21 May 2001 14:43, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How about:
# mkpart /dev/sda /dev/mypartition -o size=1024k,type=swap
# ls /dev/mypartition
basesizedevicetype
Generally, we shouldn't care which order the kernel enumerates
devices in or which
On Monday 21 May 2001 10:14, Lars Marowsky-Bree wrote:
On 2001-05-19T16:25:47,
Daniel Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
How about:
# mkpart /dev/sda /dev/mypartition -o size=1024k,type=swap
# ls /dev/mypartition
base sizedevice type
# cat /dev/mypartition/size
On 2001-05-19T16:25:47,
Daniel Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
How about:
# mkpart /dev/sda /dev/mypartition -o size=1024k,type=swap
# ls /dev/mypartition
basesizedevice type
# cat /dev/mypartition/size
1048576
# cat /dev/mypartition/device
/dev/sda
#
On Saturday 19 May 2001 13:37, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
For creating partitions you might want to do:
cat 1024 2048 /dev/sda/newpartition
How about:
# mkpart /dev/sda /dev/mypartition -o size=1024k,type=swap
# ls /dev/mypartition
base sizedevice type
# cat
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hmm. You know that I wrote this long ago?
Well, let's not get too hung up on the disk thing (yeah,
I started it...).
Ben's intent here is to *demonstrate* how argv-style
info can be passed into device nodes. It seems neat,
and nice.
We can also make use of a strong
