Re: [OT] DEVFS, pros, cons, how it makes life better
Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH (allbery@kf8nh.apk.net)
Sat, 09 Oct 1999 08:53:10 -0400
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.
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