Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266036AbUAFAjJ (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Jan 2004 19:39:09 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266021AbUAFAhL (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Jan 2004 19:37:11 -0500 Received: from findaloan.ca ([66.11.177.6]:20690 "EHLO mark.mielke.cc") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266027AbUAFAgf (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Jan 2004 19:36:35 -0500 Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2004 17:25:59 -0500 From: Mark Mielke To: Shawn Cc: Linus Torvalds , Andries Brouwer , Daniel Jacobowitz , Rob Love , rob@landley.net, Pascal Schmidt , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Greg KH Subject: Re: udev and devfs - The final word Message-ID: <20040105222559.GA3513@mark.mielke.cc> Mail-Followup-To: Shawn , Linus Torvalds , Andries Brouwer , Daniel Jacobowitz , Rob Love , rob@landley.net, Pascal Schmidt , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Greg KH 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1073341077.21797.17.camel@localhost> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1514 Lines: 35 On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 04:17:57PM -0600, Shawn wrote: > Having said that, I will say that they are /somewhat/ stable. You can, > in general, say 'fdisk /dev/hdb' and be editing the same block device's > partition table... That is, if nothing has changed in the BIOS or > hardware or kernel or.... > ... > 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. Cheers, mark -- mark@mielke.cc/markm@ncf.ca/markm@nortelnetworks.com __________________________ . . _ ._ . . .__ . . ._. .__ . . . .__ | Neighbourhood Coder |\/| |_| |_| |/ |_ |\/| | |_ | |/ |_ | | | | | | \ | \ |__ . | | .|. |__ |__ | \ |__ | Ottawa, Ontario, Canada One ring to rule them all, one ring to find them, one ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them... http://mark.mielke.cc/ - 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/