Re: SATA disk device naming ?

[Joel Becker]

On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 03:35:41PM -0700, Chris Wedgwood wrote:
> initrd is such a PITA at times, I wondered about something hacky like
> sticking LABEL parsing for rootfs (marked init) into the kernel but
> it's really gross.
> 
> Ideally the initrd/initramfs process just needs better (userspace)
> infrastructure to make it more reliable/easier.

	I'm waiting for udev to give me consistent device names easily.
Then I can specify root=/dev/disk1 and not have to scan-all-100-disks
for LABEL mounts.

Joel

-- 

	f/8 and be there.

Joel Becker
Senior Member of Technical Staff
Oracle Corporation
E-mail: joel.becker@xxxxxxxxxx
Phone: (650) 506-8127
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