On Tue, 9 Mar 2010, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote: > On Tue, Mar 09, 2010 at 04:06:59PM +0000, Iain Hibbert 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. > > > > Sorry I got confused - in your method, what is dk3 needed for? > > It is still the device, the rest are just symlinks.
do you propose to do away with sd0a then? iain