Re: udev and devfs - The final word

Mark Mielke
2004-01-06T00:39:09Z

On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 04:17:57PM -0600, Shawn wrote:
> Having said that, I will say that they are /somewhat/ stable. You can,
> in general, say 'fdisk /dev/hdb' and be editing the same block device's
> partition table... That is, if nothing has changed in the BIOS or
> hardware or kernel or....
> ...
> 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.

Cheers,
mark

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