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From: Lee Trager <Lee@PicturesInMotion.net>
Subject: Re: /dev/sd*
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2006 02:04:16 -0400
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Alan Cox wrote:
> Ar Gwe, 2006-08-18 am 17:51 +0200, ysgrifennodd Jan Engelhardt:
>   
>> Whatever udev does currently seems good:
>>
>> 17:48 shanghai:~ > ls /dev/disk/by-id/*
>> /dev/disk/by-id/ata-DIAMOND_250G_2B5400_030400026
>> /dev/disk/by-id/ata-DIAMOND_250G_2B5400_030400026-part1
>> /dev/disk/by-id/usb-0_USB_DRIVE_0000000000004287
>> /dev/disk/by-id/usb-0_USB_DRIVE_0000000000004287-part1
>>     
>
> I wouldn't try that on a typical "non technical user", at least except
> for Halloween 8)
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Why not make libata use /dev/disk by default and have a kernel option
for legacy naming(ide disks are hda, sata are sda etc)?