Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [OT] DEVFS, pros, cons, how it makes life better | Date | Sat, 09 Oct 1999 08:53:10 -0400 | From | "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" <> |
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In message <7tml4j$cp0$1@palladium.transmeta.com>, H. Peter Anvin writes: +----- | Followup to: <37FE5A7B.3D44B455@kalifornia.com> | By author: David Ford <david@kalifornia.com> | In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel | > > > - gives sensible names to devices (c1t3d0s2 instead of sde) | > > Change MAKEDEV, be my guest. | > | > c1t3d0s2 will always be c1t3d0s2 whereas sde will change depending | > on how many other drives come before it. and UUID is not a workable | > solution for non-RW media. | | Unless you add another controller (common operation) or rearrange your | SCSI busses (common operation). +--->8
Understood but not relevant to the case of *adding* a disk somewhere and having the existing ones be renamed. Using UUID to deal with this is a hack.
-- brandon s. allbery os/2,linux,solaris,perl allbery@kf8nh.apk.net system administrator kthkrb,heimdal,gnome,rt allbery@ece.cmu.edu carnegie mellon / electrical and computer engineering kf8nh We are Linux. Resistance is an indication that you missed the point.
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