David Woodhouse writes: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > One reason why this may NOT ever make it into the kernel is that I > > know "kernel poking at devices" is really frowned upon. > > A possible alternative is to specify drives by serial number. Same thing, really. You have to poke each drive to get the serial number. What if they are IDE or SCSI or FCAL or RAID array? Probably reading a block from a disk is safer than trying to find the drive serial number. Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger \ "If a man ate a pound of pasta and a pound of antipasto, \ would they cancel out, leaving him still hungry?" http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/ -- Dogbert - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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