Re: What still uses the block layer?

On Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 07:00:22AM -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote:

> that's a choice Ubuntu made in their udev scripts... if you don't like
> it, complain to them.

Keeping the naming as hda while changing the semantics (such as the 
reduced number of partitions) would have been differently confusing. We 
did look into keeping compatibility symlinks, but decided to just 
transition everything to UUIDs instead.

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