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Re: Hot-plugging USB storage devices.



El 30 Aug 2003 22:58:58 +0100 Iain Georgeson <iain@kremlinux.demon.co.uk> escribió:

> The problem is that I've just acquired a USB keychain memory drive. If
> that's the first device I plug in, it becomes sda1. I would prefer it
> each device was always mounted in the same place - /camera for the
> camera and /keychain for the keychain, for example. Is there any way
> of doing this with usbmgr or something else like hotplug?

What you want is persisten device naming, aka 'udev' (a reemplacement of devfs)
Sadly it doesnt seems still very solid and only available with 2.6 kernels.

Paper about udev:
http://archive.linuxsymposium.org/ols2003/Proceedings/All-Reprints/Reprint-Kroah-Hartman-OLS2003.pdf



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