Re: User's perspective on upgrading to kernel 2.4?
On Thu, 2002-04-11 at 20:16, dman wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 09:18:33PM -0500, Richard Cobbe wrote:
> | It's a little unclear, but I get the impression that the /dev
> | hierarchy, in particular, is very different between the two, which
> | suggests that switching back and forth is not very easy.
>
> Not at all. I do use devfs myself, and I like it a lot. If you
> install 'devfsd' (highly recommend for anyone using devfs) it will
> provide "compatibility links" by default. That is, it will
> automatically create symlinks using the old names and referencing the
> new ones. You can then migrate configurations at your leisure, or
> continue to use the old name if you are (potentially) going to revert
> to 2.2.
I actually found when I installed devfsd on Debian unstable about 1
month ago that it did *not* install the compatibility links for SCSI
devices. I had to edit /etc/<mumble> to get /dev/sd[a-z] back. This
cause a lot of fun when I rebooted.
-jwb
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