On Thu, 2008-07-03 at 06:42 -0700, Matthew Dharm wrote: > On Thu, Jul 03, 2008 at 11:02:46AM +0200, Kay Sievers wrote: > > On Thu, 2008-07-03 at 07:30 +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > > > also sprach Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@xxxxxxxx> [2008.07.02.1806 +0200]: > > > > All are only unique per namespace/bus, and should better not be > > > > mixed. > > > > > > Well, but that's my point I suppose. Why do we have to treat the > > > same drive differently, whether it's on the ATA bus or the USB bus? > > > > > > My reason for bringing this up was that I was trying to boot off > > > a harddrive via USB and had to change all the links, rather than > > > just watching the system boot off the same disk it has always booted > > > from. > > > > So, what id's/symlinks is the same disk showing for ATA and USB in your > > case? > > > > Only advanced USB bridges read the number from the actual disk, I have a > > bunch of enclosures here, which show all different id's for the same > > disk inserted. Also usb-storage needs to encode the target and lun > > number in the id, for multi-slot devices, so I do not think that will > > work. > > Isn't devlabel the technology that is supposed to be used for this sort of > scenario? No, that is replaced by /dev/disk/by-label/* Thanks, Kay -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-hotplug" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
