Linux is not about choice [was Re: Fedora too cutting edge?]
Alan Cox
alan at redhat.com
Thu Jan 10 20:16:34 UTC 2008
On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 11:00:24AM -0600, Les Mikesell wrote:
> But the old names were predictable; the new ones aren't - when I move a
> disk to a new controller/drive position, I know about it.
They were not. If you added a controller they may change.
Old unix naming is based on a fixed structure, modern system naming is
based on the reality of hotplug
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