On Sep 18, 2:57pm, Michael van Elst wrote: } } >Is there a reason why we do not translate wedges devices to their name? } >I mean, df and mount report about /dev/dkN, which is not very helpful } >since it can change quickly. Reporting about NAME= seems a better idea. } } >In order to do it, we need a reverse getfsspecname(), and use it everywhere } >reasonable: df mount swapctl raidctl ... other ideas? } } It's not necessarily a good idea to hide the dk devices, so that probably } needs to be an optional output. Also because there are people parsing } such output and expect a device path.
We just need the device path to be the name, which it already is for LVMs. This is something that a devfs could do easily. :-> More seriously, I do believe that a devfs would be a good thing. }-- End of excerpt from Michael van Elst