Lan Barnes wrote:
On Fri, February 29, 2008 1:29 pm, Al Tobey wrote:
On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 1:25 PM, Lan Barnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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.
Well, we loves out sysadmins.
For me, it means my USB devices that I used to map in /etc/fstab now
wander and have to be tracked down each insertion.
Boo hoo :'-(
It doesn't have to be that way. You can write your own udev rules to map
the drive to any convenient name. See
<http://reactivated.net/writing_udev_rules.html> for how to do it.
I remember this topic from before:
<http://www.kernel-panic.org/pipermail/kplug-list/2007-April/091688.html>
Gus
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