On Sun, Oct 04, 2015 at 04:57:15PM +0100, Simon Hobson wrote: > k...@aspodata.se wrote: > > >> This is why you use UUID= or LABEL= in /etc/fstab. > > +1 for that. I use LABEL=, but it's annoying that Debian's grub-install > doesn't handle that (it only has options for device name or UUID). > > > Let's face it, thoose other names of the device is just symlinks > > Does that really matter ? > > If someone is needing to work at the device level, they they should know how > to determine the device name. But from the "system doesn't randomly break > itself" POV it's one way to deal with the issue. > > > ... after all, fstab and /dev/-names are just > > for the user space. The kernel mostly only cares about the maj/min > > numbers, or am I wrong? > > That's the case all along. The question is how to map those node IDs to > something human readable.
I seem to remember that a few years ago they started assigning some of the minor number dynamically. -- hendrik _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
