* the devices created are canonical. Do you really think
RedHat, Slackware, and the other distributions' /dev
directories are 100% accurate? Hardly.
* You know exactly what devices you have. Under Solaris, a "boot -r"
neatly creates the SCSI devices present, named precisely for their
controller/SCSI/LUN id. Management couldn't be easier.
Putting devices in "scan order" never made sense to me. Why should
the first SCSI drive scanned be /dev/sda? What happens when I switch
the cables and drives around. Same filesystems, but the devices have
all changed.
-- Jeff Garzik Typhoon, Cyclone, Diablo, and INN http://www.spinne.com/usenet/ News tuning and consulting
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