Alexander E. Patrakov wrote:
1) unionfs-1.0.14 doesn't compile with linux-2.6.16 due to conversion of semaphores to mutexes. While I can patch it, it isn't sane to stick with the old version of unionfs forever. It is not known if a newer version is good, and there was no good-out-of-the box version of unionfs in the past. Is it acceptable to merge DM to the udev_update branch?
I'll start a build now with the latest unionfs version to see if it worked at all, unlike the previous new releases. Heh.
configuration. As a side sffect, IDE disks become renamed from /dev/hdX to /dev/sdX. Is this acceptable?
That sounds fine for a LiveCD, but will get confusing when it gets to users mounting their hard drive, and then later on remembering to put hdX in /etc/fstab even though it is sdX on the LiveCD. I don't see any other way around it though. We need SATA support in the LiveCD so we will have to deal with it.
The patch has been tested here for a month on a VIA ide controller. It is scheduled for merging in linux-2.6.17.
So it is pretty inevitable. Might as well get used to it. hdX or sdX, it's all the same to me. I prefer sdX since I can pretend I have nice scsi disks instead of cheapo pata disks. ;)
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