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[Chris Dombroski <cdombroski AT icanttype.org>]

Quoting Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>:
> I was under the impression that udev would do the consistent device
> naming for us by keeping a database of serial numbers (or some other
> unique identifier) for each device and which name it was given on the
> first boot and give the device said name on every boot.

I don't know about anything else, but this is not true for network  
devices. It was a very frustrating experience to set up my firewall,  
and then have it change the network devices around on reboot. For  
discs I know we have a set of rules that provides a  
/dev/disk/by-{id,path,uuid} that doesn't change, and link to whatever  
the disk/partition/filesystem happens to be this time. But this is an  
optional install right now.

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