[PATCH] Cygwin: Add /dev/disk/by-label and /dev/disk/by-uuid symlinks

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Nov 22 17:31, Christian Franke wrote:
> Hi Corinna,
> 
> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > Hi Christian,
> > 
> > 
> > On second thought...
> > 
> > I had a bad night tonight and was thinking a long time about this and
> > that.  It suddenly occured to me that there might be another problem
> > with this approach, attaching ordinals to the label name.
> > 
> > Assuming you have a single filesystem labled "VOLUME" which is on a
> > fixed disk.  So you get something like this:
> > 
> >    $ ls -l /dev/disk/by-label
> >    total 0
> >    lrwxrwxrwx 1 corinna vinschen 0 Nov 22 10:09  VOLUME -> ../../sdb1
> >    lrwxrwxrwx 1 corinna vinschen 0 Nov 22 10:10  root -> ../../sda3
> > 
> > Now you insert an USB Stick with a FAT32 filesystem, also labeled
> > "VOLUME".  Now you get something like this:
> > 
> >    $ ls -l /dev/disk/by-label
> >    total 0
> >    lrwxrwxrwx 1 corinna vinschen 0 Nov 22 10:12 'VOLUME#0' -> ../../sdb1
> >    lrwxrwxrwx 1 corinna vinschen 0 Nov 22 10:12 'VOLUME#1' -> ../../sdc1
> >    lrwxrwxrwx 1 corinna vinschen 0 Nov 22 10:10  root -> ../../sda3
> > 
> > So the label name changes, depending on inserting or removing another
> > partition.
> 
> This is intentional. If the first duplicate appears, it is IMO better to
> also replace the original name to show that a duplicate exists.
> 
> 
> > 
> > Not saying I have a good solution myself, so I wonder if we should just
> > let it slip, but I thought we should at least talk about it...
> 
> Users should be aware that unspecific label names like VOLUME could not be
> used as a persistent link if drives are changed.
> 
> Same may apply to by-partuuid names as preformatted SD-cards and USB flash
> drives may have a null MBR serial number.

Makes total sense.


Thanks,
Corinna