Linux is not about choice [was Re: Fedora too cutting edge?]
Andrew Farris
lordmorgul at gmail.com
Thu Jan 10 22:17:25 UTC 2008
David Zeuthen wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-01-10 at 09:31 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote:
>> Is it a user program that has changed my /dev/hdX into /dev/sdX more or
>> less arbitrarily - or turns what used to be detected as eth0 into eth2
>> when a different kernel is booted? Admittedly it has been a while since
>> I've used Solaris, but I can't recall anything like that ever happening
>> with it. In a unix-like system where access to everything is through
>> its device/file name, what is more fundamental than that?
>
> This is a flawed example. The problem is that you're relying on names
> assigned in an irregular fashion and it will happen on Solaris as well
> if you move disks between controllers etc. The way to do this in the
> modern world is to rely on persistent names. See /dev/disk/* and the
> udev rules for stable network interface names. Of course you can argue
> that e.g. /dev/sda or /dev/hda should stay stable but I doubt you're
> going to find much sympathy for such a point of view.
And the interesting thing is it looks like /dev/sdX will 'stay stable' as the
way its done after that change. Change happens. :)
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