On Thu, 2002-04-11 at 20:16, dman wrote: > On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 09:18:33PM -0500, Richard Cobbe wrote: > | It's a little unclear, but I get the impression that the /dev > | hierarchy, in particular, is very different between the two, which > | suggests that switching back and forth is not very easy. > > Not at all. I do use devfs myself, and I like it a lot. If you > install 'devfsd' (highly recommend for anyone using devfs) it will > provide "compatibility links" by default. That is, it will > automatically create symlinks using the old names and referencing the > new ones. You can then migrate configurations at your leisure, or > continue to use the old name if you are (potentially) going to revert > to 2.2.
I actually found when I installed devfsd on Debian unstable about 1 month ago that it did *not* install the compatibility links for SCSI devices. I had to edit /etc/<mumble> to get /dev/sd[a-z] back. This cause a lot of fun when I rebooted. -jwb -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
