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Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2002 16:31:33 +0200 (CEST)
From: Ketil Froyn <ketil-kernel@froyn.net>
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Subject: Re: [patch] IDE driver model update
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On Tue, 8 Oct 2002, jbradford@dial.pipex.com wrote:

> This raises the interesting possibility of being able to refer to
> things like removable media directly, instead of the device the media
> is inserted in.
>
> The Amiga was doing this years ago.  You could access floppy drives
> as, E.G. df0:, df1:, etc, but if you formatted a volume and called it
> foobar, you could access foobar: no matter which floppy drive you put
> it in to.

Isn't this possible in /etc/fstab already? Standard redhat-installs seem
to put in the labels of the volume instead of referring to the device.

> Also, Plan 9 does similar interesting things - you can do the
> equivilent of:
>
> ls /internet/websites/kernel.org/
>
> and treat the website as a filesystem.

Wouldn't you just need a filesystem driver for this? I don't know that
it's a good idea, though ;)

Ketil

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