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[Andrew <afrayedknot AT thefrayedknot.armory.com>]

devfsd makes the links for you. Im not sure whats so hard to grasp here...
and if for whatever reason you are scared of devfsd you can making fscking
symlinks to the 'old' devices you want to use. This isnt rocket science.

On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 07:23:47PM -0700, The Well-Beloved Bard wrote:
> Just wanted to give a warning to people about something that has bitten me 
> in my use of devfs.  The issue I've run into is that if you do not compile 
> your SCSI drivers as modules (because you want the slight performance 
> boost gained by statically compiling them in...) and build them into the 
> initrd file, devfs won't see the drives attached to the affected 
> controllers, and won't be able to make its links.  But once devfs comes 
> up in /dev, the "old" /dev/sdAX entries disappear, so it becomes difficult 
> to access the drives.
> 
> Has anyone else seen this, and if so, do you know of a solution?
> 
> Thanks,
> --steve--
> 
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