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Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] udev 005 release
From: Dax Kelson <dax@gurulabs.com>
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On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 17:26, Greg KH wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 10:33:13AM +0200, Giuliano Pochini wrote:
> > 
> > Is it possible to make a disk appear always with the same name,
> > regardless the order it is detected in the scsi chain (and possibly
> > its scsi ID) ?
> 
> Yes, that is one of the main reasons udev is here.
> 

On a 2.4 kernel system:

man devlabel

It allows for persistent disks. I believe udev's (2.6+) goals are
farther reaching.

I know that it exists in Red Hat Linux 9, Fedora 1.0, and RHEL3.

Dax Kelson
Guru Labs