Re: OT] Joerg Schilling flames Linux on his Blog

[Horst von Brand]

Lennart Sorensen <lsorense@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

[...]

> Well I remember the first time I saw devfs running, I thought "Wow
> finally I have a way to find the disc that is scsi id 3 on controller 0
> even if I add a device at id 2 after setting up the system", something
> most unix systems have always had, but linux made hard (you had to
> somehow figure out which id mapped to which /dev/sd* entry, which from a
> users perspective wasn't trivial, and of course keeping your fstab in
> sync with the mapping was a pain).

Why? Just use LABELs, ou UUIDs.
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