what is going on with udev?

[Jason Dravet]

>>Hello everyone,
>>    I have been pulling my hair out for the last several days trying to 
>>figure out why my usb thumb drive
>>is not being mounted. It was /dev/sdc1 (I have two scsi hard drives). I 
>>read all of the usb related threads in the fedora-test-list but none quite 
>>matched my problem. Long story short my thumb drive is
>>now at /dev/uba1. Why did this change? Since udev-075-2 the starting udev 
>>process takes over 1 minute, before it took about 10 seconds. Some other 
>>people where also inquering about the slowest of udev.
>>
>>    A quick look in /dev shows I have 64 tty nodes (tty0 - tty63) and 32 
>>ttyS nodes (ttyS0 - ttyS31). I  have two serial ports, both of which are 
>>disabled in the bios. Why are these nodes showing up? These extra nodes 
>>have been around since FC4 so udev-075-2 is not the blame for this.
>>
>>    Thanks,
>>    Jason
>
>Could you please try the version from 
>ftp://people.redhat.com/harald/udev/075-4/

I downloaded 075-4, installed it, rebooted and it is still very slow, but my 
usb thumb drive is back to being /dev/sdc1.  The 64 tty nodes and 32 ttyS 
nodes are still there.  If I remember correctly, tty is for terminal 
sessions and ttyS is for serial ports, right?

Thanks,
Jason