Alistair John Strachan wrote:
On Monday 12 March 2007 13:25, Frank van Maarseveen wrote:
[snip]
So, are /dev/hd* going to disappear in a few years? iow, does it make
sense to _slowly_ start to migrate to /dev/sd*?
How would you propose doing this? I'm sure modern distros with an
initrd/initramfs probably already do some sort of root detection. Doesn't fix
the fstab issue, but I suppose this could be auto-generated too.
The problem is there's no plan B in case of any troubles except rename
everything back again to boot an old kernel.
I doubt this matters for distributors, as they'll simply switch over when you
upgrade the distro, and the earliest supported kernel will be the one that
shipped with the newer version.
I accept that it's a bit of a drag, but it's better to have a standard naming
convention for all disks, isn't it?
The solution is quite simple. Use the LABEL= trick or other methods to
uniquely identify the partition regardless how it's connected. Most
modern distributions are already doing this.
--
tejun
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