On Friday 14 November 2008, ghe <ghe@slsware.com> wrote about 'Re: udev causing data loss?': >Florian Kulzer wrote: >The names of internal disks change without notice. This, IMHO, is an >extremely lame idea. I know better now, but it was an expensive lesson. That could happen with devfs, or static device nodes, too. I suppose it was rarer, but then device scanning was non-asynchronous then. Udev finally gives us a way to attach a name to the device vs. depending on quirks of the device scanning code to stay the same. Udev didn't cause the data loss. fdisk did! -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. bss03@volumehost.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.org/ \_/
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