Accessing disks via their serial numbers.

Sergey Babkin babkin at verizon.net
Tue Jun 27 18:27:34 UTC 2006


>From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk at phk.freebsd.dk>

>In message <20060627.103343.-432837786.imp at bsdimp.com>, "M. Warner Losh" writes
>:
>
>>: devfs is not a hardware inventory facility, it is magic place for
>>: performing a rendez-vous with a device driver.
>>
>>True, but somewhat irrelvant.
>
>Not really, it has to be kept in mind to avoid decending into the
>hell currently reserved for Linux procfs :-)

>From the user/sysadmin perspective I must say that I really
love the Linux procfs. It makes the life so much easier.

-SB


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