Subject: Re: wedges and what does that mean?
To: Pavel Cahyna <pavel@netbsd.org>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@shagadelic.org>
List: current-users
Date: 09/27/2006 15:52:22
On Sep 4, 2006, at 1:50 PM, Pavel Cahyna wrote:

> How will it fix filehandles, permissions for nodes in /dev and  
> anything
> else that uses device numbers?

For wedges to really shine, devfs is kind of necessary.

For file handles, the right answer is to give each mounted volume a  
(persistent) GUID (regardless of on-disk partition format) and use  
that to construct the file handle.

>
> Pavel

-- thorpej