Re: debian-installer status

["KORN Andras" <korn@chardonnay.math.bme.hu>]

On Sun, Oct 21, 2001 at 01:24:08AM +1000, Glenn McGrath wrote:

> It turns out that even if you compile with devfs, there are places where
> the old style device names are still used (/proc/partitions i think was
> what anoyed me), for me this ruined devfs's elegence.

Ummm...

% cat /proc/partitions 
major minor  #blocks  name

  58     0    4169728 debmirrorvg/debmirror
  34    64   60030432 ide/host2/bus1/target1/lun0/disc
  34    65          1 ide/host2/bus1/target1/lun0/part1
  34    66       8001 ide/host2/bus1/target1/lun0/part2
  34    69    4176868 ide/host2/bus1/target1/lun0/part5
  34    70   55841908 ide/host2/bus1/target1/lun0/part6
  33     0   39088896 ide/host2/bus0/target0/lun0/disc
  33     1   34179736 ide/host2/bus0/target0/lun0/part1
  33     2          1 ide/host2/bus0/target0/lun0/part2
  33     5    4784944 ide/host2/bus0/target0/lun0/part5
  33     6     123952 ide/host2/bus0/target0/lun0/part6

I couldn't find anything under /proc that referenced old device names. This
is a 2.4.10-ac7 kernel (but I don't think the stock kernel references old
names either).

Andrew

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