On 2013-07-02, Canek Pel??ez Vald??s <can...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Jul 1, 2013 9:45 PM, "Grant Edwards" <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Those names depend only on the order in which devices are discovered, >>> and that process has always been indeterminate. >> >> Really? I've been running Linux on a lot of machines for 30 years -- >> often on machines with a half-dozen hard drives -- and I never saw >> drive order change from one reboot to the next until today. That's >> quite a lucky streak. > > Since Linus started writing Linux in 1991 (22 years ago), I want to know > which time machine did you use. Doh! I meant 20 years. The first time was just a typo, and then somehow after reading my original post I did it again. I started running Linux in 93 with a friend's Yggdrasil CD and a Sun CD drive I borrowed from work. I think that was on a 25MHz 486 with 4MB of RAM and two 30MB hard drives. -- Grant
