On Saturday, 23 December 2006 2:40, Sven Köhler wrote: > Hi, > > so as you plugin a USB-disk, the kernel will recognize it, and it will > be called sda, sdb, sdc or whatever ... > > I don't like that - why doesn't it get some more usefull device-name? > Some device name, that > a) indicates, that it is usb (for example put them to /dev/usb) and > b) uses a numering not depending on how many harddisk there are in the > system > > So for example /dev/usb/uda could be a symlink to /dev/sdb, > /dev/usb/uda1 a symlink to /dev/sdb1 etc. > (In this case, sda would be a normal harddisk, which is the reason why > the usb-device is sdb) > > > So i don't know any other distribution doing it like that. So what do > you think? > - is it possible? > - is it a good idea? > - is it such a good idea, so that gentoo becomes the first distribution > doing it? > - is it a bad idea to differ from all the other distros out there? > > > Thanks, > Sven
Take a look at the contents of /dev/disk/ or if you don't like that, read up on writing your own udev rules and you can give devices whatever device node you want. -- Raymond Lewis Rebbeck -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
