[ale] fstab question

[Jim Kinney]

that's still probably the kernel. How does persistent naming with udev
work in the bootup phase? Does Gentoo use the new parallel init?

On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 4:29 PM, Jeff Hubbs <jhubbslist at att.net> wrote:
> Unsurprising; I personally haven't used an hd device in quite some time
> except for a thin client system I'm running right now whose CF card in a
> CardBus adapter comes up as /dev/hda.  So I guess it's the PCMCIA stuff
> that's doing that.
>
> Greg Freemyer wrote:
>> On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 3:42 PM, Jeff Hubbs <jhubbslist at att.net> wrote:
>>
>>> Because Gentoo uses udev to facilitate persistent naming, this isn't
>>> much of an issue...I've been using hd, sd, and md devices/partitions for
>>> years and have never had anything get flipped.
>>>
>>
>> Jeff,
>>
>> It did not go anywhere, but I just saw a lkml thread discussing
>> end-of-life (EOL)-ing the /dev/hdX drviver interface.
>>
>> As part of the discussion, fstab entries with /dev/hdX was was brought
>> up as roadblock.  After a few emails they concluded there were so few
>> users still doing that, that it was not a roadblock.  (I was very
>> surprised by that.)
>>
>> But they also agreed there was no hurry to EOL the /dev/hdX driver
>> set, so they just dropped the discussion.  I assume in a year or two
>> they will pick it back up.
>>
>> But if you are depending on /dev/hdX names being stable into the
>> distant future, at some point you will be proven wrong and will have
>> to change to /dev/sdX names.  If you were using mount by label, etc.,
>> then you would not have a problem.
>>
>> Greg
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