From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Scott James Remnant Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2006 03:02:13 +0000 Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] udev 089 release Message-Id: <1144292533.7077.0.camel@quest.netsplit.com> MIME-Version: 1 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="=-3awjnYyBQ9Ff3RF+SEBS" List-Id: References: <20060403171123.GA24860@vrfy.org> In-Reply-To: <20060403171123.GA24860@vrfy.org> To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org --=-3awjnYyBQ9Ff3RF+SEBS Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 2006-04-05 at 21:36 +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Apr 05, Scott James Remnant wrote: >=20 > > In the initramfs, we exercise a little more caution; making sure that w= e > > only probe PCI IDE or SCSI controllers first before we move on to > > probing for USB buses. The reasoning for this is that we don't want > > someone's fast USB pen drive beating their SATA or SCSI disk to > > getting /dev/sda1 > Why would this be a bad? >=20 root=3D/dev/sda1 ... "uh, why did it try and mount my iPod as the root disk?" (Orthogonal to the "use UUID/Label" argument). Scott --=20 Scott James Remnant scott@ubuntu.com --=-3awjnYyBQ9Ff3RF+SEBS Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBENIS1SnQiFMl4yK4RAnatAJ91A3SEFOSVBRx4TwlYumyWIS1iQACggh4a 8IcMln0EOh8DBjdipYSLGFg= =kAah -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-3awjnYyBQ9Ff3RF+SEBS-- ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Linux-hotplug-devel mailing list http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net Linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-hotplug-devel