As long as nothing needs the names you can ditch them -
the rub is what needs the names <G>. For fstab you could
probably put the full device name in instead of /dev/hda
put /dev/...... However, if an app doesn't let you
specifiy a device but assumes somethng such as /dev/hdc
then you need the names. If you want to experiment then
backup /etc/fstab, change it to use the /dev/.... for the
full device and see if it boots. If it does then run that
way until you find apps that don't work. However, it
really isn't that big a deal to have the old names. Devfs
creates them for us.
On Mon, 21 Jul 2003 21:24:06 +0100
Andy Arbon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hello,
How long are the compatibility names going to be
necessary for devfsd? I tried turning them off in
/etc/devfsd.conf to see what would happen and bootup
didn't proceed very well, as fdisk was not able to find
any /dev/hda* devices to work on.
This leads to two questions - is there a downside to
having the compatibility nodes (presumably it makes the
/dev directory more complicated), and are the various
programs that make use of the deprecated names actually
changing their code to use the new ones?
How long is it likely to be before we reach a stage where
we can ditch the old names?
Cheers,
Andy
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