Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266016AbUAEXI2 (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Jan 2004 18:08:28 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266001AbUAEXHq (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Jan 2004 18:07:46 -0500 Received: from CPE-24-163-213-29.mn.rr.com ([24.163.213.29]:7857 "EHLO www.enodev.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266003AbUAEXFT (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Jan 2004 18:05:19 -0500 Subject: Re: udev and devfs - The final word From: Shawn To: Mark Mielke Cc: Linus Torvalds , Andries Brouwer , Daniel Jacobowitz , Rob Love , rob@landley.net, Pascal Schmidt , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Greg KH In-Reply-To: <20040105222559.GA3513@mark.mielke.cc> References: <20040104230104.A11439@pclin040.win.tue.nl> <20040105030737.GA29964@nevyn.them.org> <20040105132756.A975@pclin040.win.tue.nl> <20040105205228.A1092@pclin040.win.tue.nl> <1073341077.21797.17.camel@localhost> <20040105222559.GA3513@mark.mielke.cc> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <1073343916.21797.21.camel@www.enodev.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.5 Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2004 17:05:16 -0600 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1068 Lines: 22 On Mon, 2004-01-05 at 16:25, Mark Mielke wrote: > On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 04:17:57PM -0600, Shawn wrote: > > ... > > As an admin, would I at least theoretically have /some/ consistency if > > merely for my own sanity when dealing with block devices by hand (I do > > need to setup LVM stuff from time to time)?? > > If all you care about is that /dev names remain consistent, you need > not fear. udev and devfs are two different ways of providing this > consistency. They abstract the device numbers from the /dev names, > meaning that you don't have to care if the numbers change. The names > don't. I'm obviously confused if this is true, as then I do not know how the great and powerful udev derives the names if not from the numbers, or some other sysfs info. Anyway, assuming this is true, I have much less concern. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/