Re: udev and devfs - The final word

Shawn
2004-01-05T23:26:20Z

And looking back on some of these emails, it seems there was more than
just me being confused. Seems this is a point worth emphasizing.

On Mon, 2004-01-05 at 17:05, Shawn wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-01-05 at 16:25, Mark Mielke wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 04:17:57PM -0600, Shawn wrote:
> > > ...
> > > As an admin, would I at least theoretically have /some/ consistency if
> > > merely for my own sanity when dealing with block devices by hand (I do
> > > need to setup LVM stuff from time to time)??
> >
> > If all you care about is that /dev names remain consistent, you need
> > not fear. udev and devfs are two different ways of providing this
> > consistency. They abstract the device numbers from the /dev names,
> > meaning that you don't have to care if the numbers change. The names
> > don't.
> I'm obviously confused if this is true, as then I do not know how the
> great and powerful udev derives the names if not from the numbers, or
> some other sysfs info.
>
> Anyway, assuming this is true, I have much less concern.