On Monday 12 March 2007 13:25, Frank van Maarseveen wrote:
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So, are /dev/hd* going to disappear in a few years? iow, does it make
sense to _slowly_ start to migrate to /dev/sd*?
How would you propose doing this? I'm sure modern distros with an initrd/initramfs probably already do some sort of root detection. Doesn't fix the fstab issue, but I suppose this could be auto-generated too.
The problem is there's no plan B in case of any troubles except rename
everything back again to boot an old kernel.
I doubt this matters for distributors, as they'll simply switch over when you upgrade the distro, and the earliest supported kernel will be the one that shipped with the newer version.
I accept that it's a bit of a drag, but it's better to have a standard naming convention for all disks, isn't it?