James Carlson wrote:
> Glenn Brunette writes:
>
>> While I agree with you on these points, sys-unconfig will not help with
>> many of these either, right?
>>
>
> I would say that ought to, but does not.
>
>
>> It sounds like we need a better option
>> than just sys-unconfig - one that could (ideally) understand these
>> relationships or at the very least reset them to default values (saving
>> the original content)? Today, I would argue it is just too easy to
>> do sys-unconfig - follow the rules - and still get fowled up because
>> of other settings that sys-unconfig does not know about.
>>
>
> Agreed; sys-unconfig is incomplete. The only good advice we have now
> is that users need to be extremely cautious when changing driver
> names, as they may well end up damaging the system and even
> compromising security (due to non-matching filtering rules).
>
I think vanity naming can help here. With vanity naming, the mapping
between physical device and logical name could be changed, without
changing any of the other files. Of course, that requires the
configuration to actually *use* the vanity names.
-- Garrett
