On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 01:24:16AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > I also dubt that udev will ever be able to do anything useful, but I > > cannot be sure since for my good luck I do not use it. > > udev is very important to modern SCSI-heavy kernels, since the SCSI > subsystem has always had the irksome habit of renaming existing > devices if a new devices is added.
yes, this is useful. But for mounting drives this is also solved without udev by mounting filesystems by labels, uuids [or by lvm devices since it is very likely that one uses LVM evms or similar on scsi drives, since (apart other advantages of LVM/evms) the limit sda1 to sda15 for scsi devices]. Once I hoped that udev would be able to circunvent that limitation (and so monut partitions >15 in large ide discs attached to an external USB enclosure without using the tricky "offset" parameter of mount). By it seems that such hope was wrong. -- Chi usa software non libero avvelena anche te. Digli di smettere. Informatica=arsenico: minime dosi in rari casi patologici, altrimenti letale. Informatica=bomba: intelligente solo per gli stupidi che ci credono. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
