Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: udev and devfs - The final word | From | Shawn <> | Date | Mon, 05 Jan 2004 17:05:16 -0600 |
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On Mon, 2004-01-05 at 16:25, Mark Mielke wrote: > On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 04:17:57PM -0600, Shawn wrote: > > ... > > As an admin, would I at least theoretically have /some/ consistency if > > merely for my own sanity when dealing with block devices by hand (I do > > need to setup LVM stuff from time to time)?? > > If all you care about is that /dev names remain consistent, you need > not fear. udev and devfs are two different ways of providing this > consistency. They abstract the device numbers from the /dev names, > meaning that you don't have to care if the numbers change. The names > don't. I'm obviously confused if this is true, as then I do not know how the great and powerful udev derives the names if not from the numbers, or some other sysfs info.
Anyway, assuming this is true, I have much less concern. - 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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