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Tony Nelson tonynelson at georgeanelson.com
Mon Oct 23 02:33:09 UTC 2006


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.
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