On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 1:25 PM, Lan Barnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, February 29, 2008 1:19 pm, Paul Norton wrote: > > Lan Barnes wrote: > >> On Fri, February 29, 2008 12:58 pm, Paul Norton wrote: > >>> Lan Barnes wrote: > >>>> I've been ... not happy with Fedora in general and 8 in particular. > >>>> It's > >>>> not just the fonts crapola, it's the (as I see it) byzantine > >>>> "improvements" in HDD handling (LVM, sliding partitions, VOLUME0000-*, > >>>> everything "/dev/sdx") > >>> This behavior is due to a kernel change in Linux. Why not try Ubuntu > >>> 7.10? AFAIK, it doesn't do any of the above listed. > >>> > >> > >> Is there something here of value that I should embrace? > >> > > > > Yes, "everything "/dev/sdx"" is not Fedora specific. > > > > But what is its VALUE?!
The old IDE drivers are quite crufty. The new hotness (libata) re-uses a lot more kernel infrastructure and actually ends up having PATA and SATA accessed through the same interfaces. This makes the kernel even more consistent, and makes our (sysadmins') jobs much easier, since we don't have to accommodate two different types of device. It's all SCSI now ;) No more ide-scsi (remember that horror?) or trying to figure out if your new SATA adapter is going to show up as /dev/hda or /dev/sda. It's just /dev/sda. -Al > > > -- > Lan Barnes > > SCM Analyst Linux Guy > Tcl/Tk Enthusiast Biodiesel Brewer > > > -- > > > [email protected] > http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list > -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
