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Re: dependencies on makedev



On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 11:52:58AM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote:

> Furthermore, udev doesn't bring new problems. You can't have a
> persistent naming scheme with a static /dev either, unless you are
> loading modules by hand. If you still want to load your modules by hand,
> udev won't prevent you from doing so.

Even that will not help you if an SCSI/SATA device fails and thus the
other devices get renamed. And with the current work to port the old
IDE drivers to libata, this may be the issue with practically every disk
in the not so distant future.

Gabor

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