Re: Where would I submit a new feature for the kernel?
Sorry, the right name is hwtools, by Siggy Brentrup <bsb@debian.org>.
I found it at frozen/binary-i386/utils/hwtools_0.2-5.deb.
I believe that, at least for scsi, it is capable of creating a node,
or else a symbolic link, on the fly so that a specific drive will
always be mounted in the same place. I recall that the drive
reference is somewhat flexible and can refer to the serial number.
Dave Cinege wrote:
>
> On Fri, 02 May 1997 22:35:41 -0500, Brian N. Borg wrote:
>
> >Take a look at documentation in the the hdutils package. I believe
> >the developer has done something very similar.
>
> Where can I get this??? Couldn't find it in rex, bo, or hamm.....
>
> >--Brian
> >
> >Dave Cinege wrote:
> >>
> >> I know this isn't a Debian question, but I have to start some place.
> >> What list/NG would be *best* to submit a new idea for the kernel?
> >> (actually maybe just lilo)
> >>
> >> Problem: partition and drive shift
> >> Solution: Name partitions like in the old Amiga days
> >>
> >> How: Read the 'labels' of all partitions at start up and dynamiclly creates
> >> entries in the /dev/ dir using that 'label' name with the correct
> >> major/minor.
> >>
> >> Example: If I have linux installed on Logical partition 7 and put that drive
> >> on another system, sda7 magically becomes sdb7 and linux will not boot with
> >> out reconfiguring. This sucks.
> >>
> >> Example with fix: we mount /dev/linpar as root. We 'label' the linux
> >> partiton linpar. The kernel starts up, and scans the labels of all the
> >> partitions. It finds a type 83 with a label of linpar, and it creates a
> >> /dev/linpar entry (or symlink) to the correct major and minor.
> >>
> >> If anything moves, linpar will always be linpar, no matter if it's
> >> physically sda1, sda5, hdb1, etc.
> >>
> >> Taken even futher, the same works with type 06 (FAT) and 07 (HPFS) (maybe
> >> others) partitions using the standard DOS label for the name of the
> >> partitions. Similarly if you have a FAT partition you mount as /usr1 you
> >> don't have to worry where it physically is, as long as it is named correctly.
> >>
> >> I'll offer to help code this, it really looks quite easy to do.
> >>
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