On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 4:33 AM, Greg A. Woods <wo...@planix.ca> wrote: > At Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:56:36 +0000 (GMT), Iain Hibbert > <plu...@rya-online.net> wrote: > Subject: Re: (Semi-random) thoughts on device tree structure and devfs >> >> So, you want to be able to mount a disk by the label: >> >> $ mount -t msdosfs -o label "foobar" /external_disk_foobar > > Yes, something like that, using fs_volname of course. I've wanted this > kind of feature for decades.
While I understand usefulness of human-readable labels, I don't think it should be handled in kernel. Because labels are arbitrary. They are not ensured to be unique. I think labels should be resolved by some name service. It's not different than /etc/hosts -> IP address. Masao
