I know this isn't a Debian question, but I have to start some place. What list/NG would be *best* to submit a new idea for the kernel? (actually maybe just lilo)
Problem: partition and drive shift Solution: Name partitions like in the old Amiga days How: Read the 'labels' of all partitions at start up and dynamiclly creates entries in the /dev/ dir using that 'label' name with the correct major/minor. Example: If I have linux installed on Logical partition 7 and put that drive on another system, sda7 magically becomes sdb7 and linux will not boot with out reconfiguring. This sucks. Example with fix: we mount /dev/linpar as root. We 'label' the linux partiton linpar. The kernel starts up, and scans the labels of all the partitions. It finds a type 83 with a label of linpar, and it creates a /dev/linpar entry (or symlink) to the correct major and minor. If anything moves, linpar will always be linpar, no matter if it's physically sda1, sda5, hdb1, etc. Taken even futher, the same works with type 06 (FAT) and 07 (HPFS) (maybe others) partitions using the standard DOS label for the name of the partitions. Similarly if you have a FAT partition you mount as /usr1 you don't have to worry where it physically is, as long as it is named correctly. I'll offer to help code this, it really looks quite easy to do. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Elite MicroComputers 908-541-4214 http://www.psychosis.com/emc/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
