Re: I give up

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On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 06:22:10PM -0400, Dave Dillow wrote:
 > On Mon, 2007-04-09 at 23:35 +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
 > > On Apr 9 2007 15:38, Gene Heskett wrote:
 > > >On Monday 09 April 2007, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
 > > >>Jan Engelhardt wrote:
 > > >>> dm is on 254 for me.. in opensuse with a 2.6.20 that is. I wonder why
 > > >>> it even moves around. However, even then, those who use udev and
 > > >>> device names rather than (major,minor) tuples should not have any
 > > >>> problem.
 > > >>
 > > >>It moves around because someone at some point thought it was a great
 > > >>idea to assign dynamic majors to core functionality.
 > > >>
 > > >What were they smoking, I want some of that!
 > > 
 > > Do you actually use udev?
 > 
 > udev doesn't help the problem he is having (and he is using it, since he
 > is using Fedora).

However, it also doesn't explain what the point is of backing up /dev
when it's dynamically created.

	Dave

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