At 11:17 AM +0930 10/23/06, Tim wrote: >On Sun, 2006-10-22 at 20:20 -0500, Jay Cliburn wrote: >> The ultimate goal is to have your disk show up at /dev/diskX; moving >> everything to /dev/sdX is just a temporary step in that direction. > >That's only going to be of any good if discX *always* appears as discX, >no matter where it's connected, and no matter what else is also >connected. >>This thread has many of the exciting details from both sides of the aisle. >>http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-ide&m=115515849926079&w=2 According to that thread, that's the reason to have /dev/disk. Until then, dev/sd* for everything is going to be a mess, as it's naming is unstable. -- ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' The Great Writ <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' is no more. <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>
