On Thu, 22 Dec 2005 06:29, Darren Salt wrote: > I demand that Alexander E. Patrakov may or may not have written... > > > Kay Sievers wrote: > >> There is also the plan to do parallel device probing inside the kernel > >> some day, that will make the situation of relying on kernel names even > >> more fragile. > > > > Right, this means that the way of passing "root=/dev/hdc2" will no > > longer work because /dev/hdc will sometimes become /dev/hde. > That will also break scripts/apps that manipulate disks/partitions.
This could easily result in some-one restoring a backup over the wrong disk. Andrew -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
