From: Martin Steigerwald <Martin@lichtvoll.de>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ide: update Kconfig text to mark as deprecated
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2009 09:15:51 +0100
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Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>, hancockrwd@gmail.com,
       linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
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Am Freitag 30 Oktober 2009 schrieb David Miller:
> And yes I absolutely do consider it too onerous to change my fstab
> because I have to (or want to be able to) go back to older kernels
> which will only have the IDE stack enabled.  I refuse to have to
> monkey around with my fstab every time I want to go back and forth.

You don't need to when you used UUID or LABEL - I prefer the later cause=20
its more readable. Actually I never quite understood while one would want=20
to use dynamic things like /dev/hdd or /dev/sdb in the first place. Thats=20
for me not that much better than C: or D:. Connect your harddisks=20
differently and you are screwed.

On AmigaOS partitions were refered by names since the beginning. When I=20
copied my OS to a different harddisk I gave the new partition the same=20
name, copied all files over, removed the old harddisk or renamed the old=20
partition and reduced its boot priority and be done with it. (Not that=20
AmigaOS had a fstab that I could have edited anyway.) This way I could=20
connect an IDE disk with the IDE controller on board, an IDE controller=20
card like FastATA or via bridge to the UWSCSI controller on the CyberStorm=
=20
PPC turbo board without having to change any configuration in order to be=20
able to boot.

(Another thing to copy would be how removable storage devices are handled.=
=20
If you remove a disk or usb stick prematurely while the OS is still=20
writing to it you get a "You MUST insert volume xyz again!" requester and=20
if you do, the writes will be completed. I never have seen any other OS=20
that does it this sane way as a standard. Other OS either disallow device=20
removal where possible or loose data.)

Ciao,
=2D-=20
Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald - http://www.Lichtvoll.de
GPG: 03B0 0D6C 0040 0710 4AFA  B82F 991B EAAC A599 84C7

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