Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 5 Jan 2004 17:25:59 -0500 | From | Mark Mielke <> | Subject | Re: udev and devfs - The final word |
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On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 04:17:57PM -0600, Shawn wrote: > Having said that, I will say that they are /somewhat/ stable. You can, > in general, say 'fdisk /dev/hdb' and be editing the same block device's > partition table... That is, if nothing has changed in the BIOS or > hardware or kernel or.... > ... > 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.
Cheers, mark
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