Goals for 0.3.0

Joe Shaw joeshaw at novell.com
Thu Jul 22 08:05:27 PDT 2004


On Thu, 2004-07-22 at 01:56 +0200, Kay Sievers wrote:
> What should we do with the major/minor numbers in the volume's udi?
> Replace it by the volume-name or the uuid?

That probably makes sense, although we also need to fix it for the
actual drive itself as well.  Basically we need to eliminate all uses of
major/minor in UDIs.

> Btw: Any objections to add "D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64" to configure.in? It
> instructs gcc to use the 64bit versions of the file operations, so I can
> switch back in volume_id to keep it compatible with the udev version. 

Yeah, good idea, although it probably only should be done on Linux, no?

Joe

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