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Re: devfs?
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Axel Thimm <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 12 Jul 2005 14:18:57 +0200
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On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 01:09:18PM +0100, John Rowe wrote:
> Is this included in SL? Specifically I want to be able to mount a given
> SCSI device without having to second guess its sd? identity. devfs seems
> to do what I want but I can't work out how to enable it!

Use SL4 and udev. udev is the analogon to devfs and allows persistent
naming of devices.

But even better: Use LVM and just name your partitions. Then you won't
even have to care whether it's SCSI, PATA, FC etc. (all but the boot
partition).
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Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net

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