Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult wrote:
On 31.12.2014 15:44, Hendrik Boom wrote:
Never mind the mechanisms for now.
May I ask what all this complexity is supposed to accomplish?
I'd say, it's for letting the machine do the things automatically.
Probably not required for servers, but quite helpful for end user
machines, where regularily new/other devices are plugged in.
I wouldn't quite go as far as "not required for servers" - one does
occasionally swap network cards, hot-swap a disk drive, or plug in a
console.
Then again, the automatic mechanisms don't necessarily work all that
well - things like dynamic address assignment don't work all that well
in a server environment (the cause of more than one all-nighter, in the
early days of udev, trying to figure out things like why a server
wouldn't talk to the net, after updgrading a network card).
Miles Fidelman
--
In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.
In practice, there is. .... Yogi Berra
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