Op 17-10-2006 om 17:10 schreef maximilian attems: > On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 04:27:19PM +0200, Geert Stappers wrote: > > Dear Kernel developers, > > > > Your work is appriceated, but I have a request: > > > > Please allow reproducable hardware detection. > > > > As systemadministrator I can't affort having a disk that is one moment > > /dev/sda and the next reboot /dev/sdb. > > > > Having a fast booting system is great, having disks swapped not. > > the kernel _never_ guaranteed stable device nodes, > that is an userspace policy.
I should smile. In 1997 I had /dev/sda, which had SCSI target Id #3. When I added another disk, being target #2, that became /dev/sda And the original /dev/sda went into /dev/sdb rendering the system _unbootable_ So after about 10 years, is the answer use UUID. I should laugh ... > use the tools that provide that. Please provide names of such tools. (TIA) > > Please prefer consistence above speed. > > > > Thank you for reading this humble plea. > > Geert Stappers > > edgy udev transforms the fstab to use plain uuids, > to guarantee correct root recognition. > i guess their installer also add uuid entries to the newly > installed fstab - why is that not in d-i? > > -- > maks Cheers Geert Stappers -- During system recovery provide the boot option: root=UUID=4a6aed11-42dd-4c82-81ce-8f469e93f210 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
