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Alistair John Strachan wrote: > On Monday 12 March 2007 13:25, Frank van Maarseveen wrote: > [snip]>> So, are /dev/hd* going to disappear in a few years? iow, does it make >> sense to _slowly_ start to migrate to /dev/sd*?> > How would you propose doing this? I'm sure modern distros with an > initrd/initramfs probably already do some sort of root detection. Doesn't fix > the fstab issue, but I suppose this could be auto-generated too. > >> The problem is there's no plan B in case of any troubles except rename >> everything back again to boot an old kernel.> > I doubt this matters for distributors, as they'll simply switch over when you > upgrade the distro, and the earliest supported kernel will be the one that > shipped with the newer version.> > I accept that it's a bit of a drag, but it's better to have a standard naming > convention for all disks, isn't it? The solution is quite simple. Use the LABEL= trick or other methods to uniquely identify the partition regardless how it's connected. Most modern distributions are already doing this. -- tejun - 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/ | ||||||||||||
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