device naming (mentioned in Fedora Weekly News 259)

Fri Jan 21 10:09:47 UTC 2011

On 01/21/2011 03:14 PM, Roberto Ragusa wrote:
>
> Both approaches are needed, case by case.
>
> If there is only one NIC, I want it to be eth0.
> But I also like that some external disks appear with their own
> device name and mountpoint (e.g. /dev/backupdisk0)

The way it is implemented, you are free to choose to preserve the old
way or pick the new names.

Rahul