On Sun, 2008-03-16 at 07:25 +0900, John Summerfield wrote: > Jesse Keating wrote: > > On Sat, 2008-03-15 at 11:21 -0400, G.Wolfe Woodbury wrote: > >> But it's not "user friendly" in that it has no meaning that the user can > >> associate to the contents. > > > > Thinking that "/dev/sda1" or "LABEL=/root" has any real meaning is just > > false anyway. It sometimes works, just by happy accident. But if > > you're mixing machines or cloning things it'll go wrong. > > It used to be that /dev/hda1 and /dev/sda1 had defined meanings. IMV > moving away from that was a mistake. Good luck convincing kernel folks of that :-) > We who generally can attach four disks (USB, firewire aside) don't have > a problem knowing which drive is which: it's it is _the_ drive, or we > plugged in another and know which is which, or we can pop the top off > and have a look. Most hardware has supported more than four internal disks for many years now. Multiple controllers were pretty common at which point guessing which is the "first" isn't just a matter of popping the top off and taking a look. With SATA, this is taken even further as the whole concept of master and slaves is gone and you can just have chains of drives. Jeremy _______________________________________________ Anaconda-devel-list mailing list Anaconda-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/anaconda-devel-list
