Re: OT] Joerg Schilling flames Linux on his Blog

[Terry Vernon <tvernon24@comcast.net>]

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Joerg Schilling wrote:

>Kyle Moffett <mrmacman_g4@mac.com> wrote:
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>>>BTW: an implementation that uses something like Solaris does with
>>>/etc/path_to_inst and puts USB serial numbers into the path_to_inst
>>>kernel instance database could come very close to the desired result
>>>and would give stable SCSI addresses too.
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>>But why fix what isn't broken?  I can tell all my other programs, from
>>dd to mount, that I want to use the udev-created /dev/green_burner, so
>>why do you indicate such usage is _deprecated_ in cdrecord?  For such
>>device nodes, a _filesystem_ is the preferred name=>number index, so
>>why add an extra strange file "just because Solaris does".
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>If you use /dev/ entries to directly address SCSI targets, then you 
>are relying on on assumptions that cannot be granted everywhere.
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>Cdrecord is portable and this needs to implement a way that is portable 
>and does not rely on nonportable assumptions like yours.
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>>And why again do you need stable SCSI addresses for my _USB_ drive?
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>Well if the udev program was polite to users, it would also support
>to edit /etc/default/cdrecord...... 
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>... if it _really_ does wat you like with /dev/ links, then it has all 
>the information that is needed to also maintain /etc/default/cdrecord
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>Jörg
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