On Thursday, 10 January 2008 at 16:31, Les Mikesell wrote: > Olivier Galibert wrote: >> On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 08:06:53AM -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: >>> Zfs isn't the only interesting thing about opensolaris and Sun does give >>> you the candy if you take the whole package. It is only the Linux terms >>> that keep you from adding the parts. Solaris has an entirely different >>> attitude about backwards compatibility which makes the mention slightly >>> on topic for this conversation. I can't, for example, imagine them ever >>> changing a device name arbitrarily and breaking a previously working >>> configuration while Linux has no such respect for its users' previous >>> work. Fedora may not be the place for it, but I would seriously like to >>> see a distribution based on the OpenSolaris kernel and the same user >>> programs you'd find in a current Linux or *bsd distro. >> >> Given that it's the user programs that have the lack of respect for >> previous configurations (Linus considers backwards-compatibility very >> important), I doubt you'll see any change for the better. > > Is it a user program that has changed my /dev/hdX into /dev/sdX more or > less arbitrarily Can you say "filesystem labels"? I thought so. > - or turns what used to be detected as eth0 into eth2 when > a different kernel is booted? echo -e "alias eth0 module1\nalias eth2 module2\n" >> /etc/modprobe.conf has always worked for me. Have you filed a bug? Regards, R. -- Fedora contributor http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DominikMierzejewski Livna contributor http://rpm.livna.org MPlayer developer http://mplayerhq.hu "Faith manages." -- Delenn to Lennier in Babylon 5:"Confessions and Lamentations" -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
