Re: udev device naming policy concerns

[Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>]

Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> writes:

> (3) Most filesystems have UUID's and/or Labels at this point.  
> 
> > If you use this argument you should be in support of using LABEL= or
> > UUID= when creating the fstab in the Debian-Installer, right?
> 
> Correct, I would be in favor of doing this, since it correctly solves
> the problem even if the SCSI id of the device changes.  This will
> become even more important if people are using devices that are based
> on Firewire or USB, where the SCSI id is even more subject to change,
> and therefore just as useless as "/dev/sda".  You really should be
> mounting based on filesystem UUID or Label.
> 
> 					- Ted

I wonder if its easy/possible with udev to create a tree with

/dev/label/<cdrom/disk/partition label>
/dev/uuid/<cdrom/disk/partition uuid>

Or maybe sorted into media type first:

/dev/cdroms/<CD label>
/dev/discs/<disk/partition name>

MfG
        Goswin