On Tue, 9 Mar 2010 22:52:17 -0500 Steven Bellovin <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Mar 9, 2010, at 10:43 PM, Masao Uebayashi wrote: > > >> I think that Joerg's proposal doesn't prevent you from doing what you > >> want, though I don't think it helps, either. He suggested that /dev/uuid > >> and /dev/label just have symlinks to the usual device file, so no > >> user-level daemons would be involved. > > > > He said it has to be done in userland daemon. :) > > > The userland daemon creates the symlinks but not the device files, I thought. That's also my understanding, but since this system is also very simple, even a kernel implementation would probably be nice to do this, in which case users of such a system could add an entry in their /etc/fstab to mount the uuid fs under /dev/uuid/ ? -- Matt
