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  • From: Chris Dombroski <cdombroski AT icanttype.org>
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] udev module loading order
  • Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2006 12:39:40 -0400

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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