On Tue, Mar 09, 2010 at 04:25:06PM +0100, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote: > > 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.
And now anyone who can jack around with the userspace daemon process can cause you to mount a filesystem you didn't intend to mount. I think discovery of the identifiers used to mount devices needs to be in the kernel. We can do that already for RAIDframe and GPT; why back away from it now? Thor