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

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>]

On Nov 17 15:39, Christian Franke wrote:
> The last two /dev/disk subdirectories :-)
> 
> Note a minor difference: On Linux, empty /dev/disk subdirectories apparently
> never appear. A subdirectory is not listed in /dev/disk if it would be
> empty. Not worth the effort to emulate.

Agreed.  This is really great.  I just pushed your patch.

However, there's something strange in terms of by-label:

I have two partitions with labels:

  $ ls -l /dev/disk/by-label
  total 0
  lrwxrwxrwx 1 corinna vinschen 0 Nov 17 17:18 blub -> ../../sda3
  lrwxrwxrwx 1 corinna vinschen 0 Nov 17 17:18 blub2 -> ../../sdb2
  $

Now I change the label of sdb2 to the same "blub" string as on sda3:

  $ ls -l /dev/disk/by-label
  total 0
  $

I'd expected to see only one, due to the name collision, but en empty
dir is a bit surprising...  And it may occur more often than not, given
that the default label "New_Volume" probably won't get changed very
often.


Thanks,
Corinna