On Tue, Mar 09, 2010 at 04:25:06PM +0100, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote: > On Tue, Mar 09, 2010 at 08:09:57AM +0000, Iain Hibbert wrote: > > I have never used wedges but, for the disk case, would it not be better to > > make a method of configuring a dk in advance, so that whenever a disk > > appears with the correct parameters it will already be mapped to the dk > > you expect? (perhaps a daemon could handle it) Then you know that /dev/dk3 > > is your USB stick and will never be anything else.. > > I don't think it has to be or should be in the kernel. Basically, > /dev/dk3 gets created or is used by the kernel. A daemon is notified > (*cough* udevd) and that scans the device properties, finds the UUID and > creates /dev/uuid/2345324523453245. It also finds the label and creates > /dev/label/my-usb-stick. The latter is what you put in /etc/fstab.
What if udevd is on /dev/uuid/2345324523453245 ? Dave -- David Young OJC Technologies [email protected] Urbana, IL * (217) 278-3933
