Re: CD Symlinks Solution Idea

["Alexander E. Patrakov" <patrakov@ums.usu.ru>]

juuso.alasuutari@tamperelainen.org wrote:

> I'm also working on a symlink naming helper (based on
> Jim Gifford's script),

Please don't. It is a 1:1 reimplementation of the old "%e" idea that was dropped 
for a good reason: it doesn't work consistently.

I.e., sometimes you will get /dev/cdrom -> sr0 and /dev/cdrom1 -> sr1, and 
sometimes the other way round. That happens because udev processes uevents in 
parallel, and thus in random order (and this can't be changed). In order for the 
symlinks to be persistent, some on-disk database must be present, and that's 
what Marco's script does (but it doesn't work with more than two CD-ROMs due to 
an easily-fixable bug - or is that already fixed?).

-- 
Alexander E. Patrakov


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