Didier: ... > Everybody is using blkid to build thiese links, my script as well as > Udev and Vdev. You probably noticed that blkid has a special option for > Udev because Udev people are too lazzy to parse the response. In Vdev, > Jude made the parsing job to be compatible with Busybox's blkid which > hasn't this special format.
Ok. > So blkid authors on one hand provide a special format for Udev to > create the symlinks, and on the other hand claim that they aren't reliable! Heh, funny world, isn't it. /// Since you can mount a fs by its uuid or label: # blkid /dev/md7 /dev/md7: UUID="b3a4343f-ea9f-442e-911b-994e70ef2c5c" TYPE="xfs" # mount --uuid b3a4343f-ea9f-442e-911b-994e70ef2c5c /Net # df /Net Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/md7 1952749916 1615159700 337590216 83% /Net # umount /Net/ # df /Net Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/root 849332 60964 728008 8% / # ls -l /dev/disk ls: cannot access '/dev/disk': No such file or directory # Isn't /dev/disk/by* redundant, couldn't we just deprecate them, don't that ? Regards, /Karl Hammar ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Aspö Data Lilla Aspö 148 S-742 94 Östhammar Sweden +46 173 140 57 _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
