Re: CD writing in future Linux (stirring up a hornets' nest)

[Marcin Dalecki <dalecki.marcin@neostrada.pl>]

On 2006-02-13, at 13:01, Matthias Andree wrote:
> You're barking up the wrong tree anyways. You're holding on to a
> non-workable b,t,l approach because it's convenient on BSD and some
> other systems, but it cannot be stable. The only stable identifiers I
> conceive are brand,model,serial - and this is the way to get rid of  
> the
> ugly race between cdrecord -scanbus and cdrecord dev=b,t,l.

Right with the exception that it's the UID (unique id) *standard*  
that is
addressing this issue for other operating systems in a very reliable and
already successfull way. No need to invent something different here  
in particular
in the storage area.
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