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From: Philippe Trottier <tchiwam@invers.fi>
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Subject: 2.5 suggestion 
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To prevent big confusion after adding or removing hardware (IDE, SCSI,
Network) would it be possible to assign them an order of detection or
give them a fixed Major / minor ?

so that /dev/sd? always refer to the same physical device...

Philippe Trottier

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