Re: [PATCH] ide: update Kconfig text to mark as deprecated

[Martin Steigerwald]

Am Freitag 30 Oktober 2009 schrieb David Miller:
> And yes I absolutely do consider it too onerous to change my fstab
> because I have to (or want to be able to) go back to older kernels
> which will only have the IDE stack enabled.  I refuse to have to
> monkey around with my fstab every time I want to go back and forth.

You don't need to when you used UUID or LABEL - I prefer the later cause 
its more readable. Actually I never quite understood while one would want 
to use dynamic things like /dev/hdd or /dev/sdb in the first place. Thats 
for me not that much better than C: or D:. Connect your harddisks 
differently and you are screwed.

On AmigaOS partitions were refered by names since the beginning. When I 
copied my OS to a different harddisk I gave the new partition the same 
name, copied all files over, removed the old harddisk or renamed the old 
partition and reduced its boot priority and be done with it. (Not that 
AmigaOS had a fstab that I could have edited anyway.) This way I could 
connect an IDE disk with the IDE controller on board, an IDE controller 
card like FastATA or via bridge to the UWSCSI controller on the CyberStorm 
PPC turbo board without having to change any configuration in order to be 
able to boot.

(Another thing to copy would be how removable storage devices are handled. 
If you remove a disk or usb stick prematurely while the OS is still 
writing to it you get a "You MUST insert volume xyz again!" requester and 
if you do, the writes will be completed. I never have seen any other OS 
that does it this sane way as a standard. Other OS either disallow device 
removal where possible or loose data.)

Ciao,
-- 
Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald - http://www.Lichtvoll.de
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