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Re: should an end user stick to a kernel with an initrd?



On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 3:12 AM, Ralf Mardorf
<ralf.mardorf@alice-dsl.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 2013-09-26 at 19:07 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote:
>>
>> Traditional device names, such as /dev/sda, /dev/sdb,
>> (and therefore the partitions on those devices, such
>> as /dev/sda1, /dev/sdb1, etc.) are not assigned in a predictable
>> manner anymore.  This device name assignment can change from one boot
>> to the next.
>
> This never happened on my machine.

This won't happen if you have just one disk. ;)

On a more serious note, do you really think that all the people
maintaining distributions thought "using sdX is far too simple and
easy, let's start using human-non-parsable UUIDs?!"


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