Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265918AbUAEGLa (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Jan 2004 01:11:30 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265919AbUAEGLa (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Jan 2004 01:11:30 -0500 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:5278 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265918AbUAEGLS (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Jan 2004 01:11:18 -0500 Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2004 06:11:14 +0000 From: viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Daniel Jacobowitz , Andries Brouwer , Rob Love , rob@landley.net, Pascal Schmidt , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Greg KH Subject: Re: udev and devfs - The final word Message-ID: <20040105061114.GF4176@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> References: <20040104142111.A11279@pclin040.win.tue.nl> <20040104230104.A11439@pclin040.win.tue.nl> <20040105030737.GA29964@nevyn.them.org> <20040105035037.GD4176@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> <20040105043830.GE4176@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1725 Lines: 35 On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 08:52:56PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > That's where "mount by label" does part of the job. But if the system is > _always_ set up to do things like NFS exports according to some separate > UUID, that too would "just work". mount by label does part of the job, until you decide to use dd(1) to copy a disk. At which point you have, AFAICS, no way tell which copy will get mounted. > Those are them fighting words. > > But since you brought it up: do you actually have anything else that can > open a remote IMAP file with a few thousand messages without taking ages > for it, and that you don't have to mouse around with? I'd like a graphical > interface for configuring stuff etc, but I sure as hell don't want to find > some f*ing icon to save a few messages that I selected in-order to my > "doit" queue or go to the next one, or pipe the thing to a shell-script, > or any number of things that are my actual _job_. I prefer to ssh to another box and use mutt. Seriously, I've made a mistake of reading imapd source and that was enough to decide that I'm _not_ touching uw- and that protocol in general unless I really have no other options. So far I've managed to avoid that... > On a related matter, I'm probably a retard, but I've tried alternatives to > "trn" too, and there really aren't any. Same here. There are things about trn command set I'd prefer to see changed, but it's better than other newsreaders I've seen... - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/