Re: CD Symlinks Solution Idea

[Jim Gifford <maillist@jg555.com>]

Alexander E. Patrakov wrote:
> 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?).
>
The point is that not everyone is worried about consistency, if they 
need a specific drive associated, then they need to use the SYSFS rules 
and create persistent naming. But for people who only have one cdrom. 
This is a simple solution.


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