From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261457AbVFAQ2q (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Jun 2005 12:28:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261461AbVFAQ2q (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Jun 2005 12:28:46 -0400 Received: from mail1.kontent.de ([81.88.34.36]:46485 "EHLO Mail1.KONTENT.De") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261457AbVFAQ2p (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Jun 2005 12:28:45 -0400 From: Oliver Neukum To: Horst von Brand Subject: Re: OT] Joerg Schilling flames Linux on his Blog Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2005 18:28:40 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.8 Cc: Lennart Sorensen , Gerd Knorr , Joerg Schilling , mrmacman_g4@mac.com, toon@hout.vanvergehaald.nl, ltd@cisco.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dtor_core@ameritech.net, 7eggert@gmx.de References: <200506010223.j512NgeC005179@laptop11.inf.utfsm.cl> In-Reply-To: <200506010223.j512NgeC005179@laptop11.inf.utfsm.cl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200506011828.40551.oliver@neukum.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Am Mittwoch, 1. Juni 2005 04:23 schrieb Horst von Brand: > Lennart Sorensen wrote: > > [...] > > > Well I remember the first time I saw devfs running, I thought "Wow > > finally I have a way to find the disc that is scsi id 3 on controller 0 > > even if I add a device at id 2 after setting up the system", something > > most unix systems have always had, but linux made hard (you had to > > somehow figure out which id mapped to which /dev/sd* entry, which from a > > users perspective wasn't trivial, and of course keeping your fstab in > > sync with the mapping was a pain). > > Why? Just use LABELs, ou UUIDs. For burning a CD? A label is hardly practical and UUIDs are rare. Sometimes addressing the medium won't do and you need the device. Regards Oliver