Re: mounting wedges by name

[David Young <dyoung%pobox.com@localhost>]

On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 11:02:32AM +0000, Andrew Doran wrote:
> This seems like an hack around a devfs sized hole in the system.
> It will generate more compatibility baggage.  The file system is good
> for naming things, so I struggle to see why we need yet another way of
> naming things.

The filesystem is a good way to name things, and devfs is a desirable
feature, I agree.  With or without a devfs, though, we need to have a
discussion about match criteria for volumes.  It seems to me that the
match criteria have come under discussion here.  Names won't suffice to
match every volume.

Dave

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