[ale] fstab question

[Jeff Hubbs]

Jim Kinney wrote:
> that's still probably the kernel. How does persistent naming with udev
> work in the bootup phase? 
I haven't really dealt with it much except for the network rules...when 
I port an image from one system to another of similar arch, I have to 
futz with that or the machine thinks eth0 is eth1.
> Does Gentoo use the new parallel init?
>   
Apparently it's been available since at least 2004; haven't messed with it.
> On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 4:29 PM, Jeff Hubbs <jhubbslist at att.net> wrote:
>   
>> Unsurprising; I personally haven't used an hd device in quite some time
>> except for a thin client system I'm running right now whose CF card in a
>> CardBus adapter comes up as /dev/hda.  So I guess it's the PCMCIA stuff
>> that's doing that.
>>
>> Greg Freemyer wrote:
>>     
>>> On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 3:42 PM, Jeff Hubbs <jhubbslist at att.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>       
>>>> Because Gentoo uses udev to facilitate persistent naming, this isn't
>>>> much of an issue...I've been using hd, sd, and md devices/partitions for
>>>> years and have never had anything get flipped.
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> Jeff,
>>>
>>> It did not go anywhere, but I just saw a lkml thread discussing
>>> end-of-life (EOL)-ing the /dev/hdX drviver interface.
>>>
>>> As part of the discussion, fstab entries with /dev/hdX was was brought
>>> up as roadblock.  After a few emails they concluded there were so few
>>> users still doing that, that it was not a roadblock.  (I was very
>>> surprised by that.)
>>>
>>> But they also agreed there was no hurry to EOL the /dev/hdX driver
>>> set, so they just dropped the discussion.  I assume in a year or two
>>> they will pick it back up.
>>>
>>> But if you are depending on /dev/hdX names being stable into the
>>> distant future, at some point you will be proven wrong and will have
>>> to change to /dev/sdX names.  If you were using mount by label, etc.,
>>> then you would not have a problem.
>>>
>>> Greg
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