Re: 2.6.20*: PATA DMA timeout, hangs (2)

[Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>]

Alistair John Strachan wrote:
> On Monday 12 March 2007 13:25, Frank van Maarseveen wrote:
> [snip]
>> So, are /dev/hd* going to disappear in a few years? iow, does it make
>> sense to _slowly_ start to migrate to /dev/sd*?
> 
> How would you propose doing this? I'm sure modern distros with an 
> initrd/initramfs probably already do some sort of root detection. Doesn't fix 
> the fstab issue, but I suppose this could be auto-generated too.
> 
>> The problem is there's no plan B in case of any troubles except rename
>> everything back again to boot an old kernel.
> 
> I doubt this matters for distributors, as they'll simply switch over when you 
> upgrade the distro, and the earliest supported kernel will be the one that 
> shipped with the newer version.
> 
> I accept that it's a bit of a drag, but it's better to have a standard naming 
> convention for all disks, isn't it?

The solution is quite simple.  Use the LABEL= trick or other methods to 
uniquely identify the partition regardless how it's connected.  Most 
modern distributions are already doing this.

-- 
tejun