Am Freitag 30 Oktober 2009 schrieb David Miller: > And yes I absolutely do consider it too onerous to change my fstab > because I have to (or want to be able to) go back to older kernels > which will only have the IDE stack enabled. I refuse to have to > monkey around with my fstab every time I want to go back and forth. You don't need to when you used UUID or LABEL - I prefer the later cause its more readable. Actually I never quite understood while one would want to use dynamic things like /dev/hdd or /dev/sdb in the first place. Thats for me not that much better than C: or D:. Connect your harddisks differently and you are screwed. On AmigaOS partitions were refered by names since the beginning. When I copied my OS to a different harddisk I gave the new partition the same name, copied all files over, removed the old harddisk or renamed the old partition and reduced its boot priority and be done with it. (Not that AmigaOS had a fstab that I could have edited anyway.) This way I could connect an IDE disk with the IDE controller on board, an IDE controller card like FastATA or via bridge to the UWSCSI controller on the CyberStorm PPC turbo board without having to change any configuration in order to be able to boot. (Another thing to copy would be how removable storage devices are handled. If you remove a disk or usb stick prematurely while the OS is still writing to it you get a "You MUST insert volume xyz again!" requester and if you do, the writes will be completed. I never have seen any other OS that does it this sane way as a standard. Other OS either disallow device removal where possible or loose data.) Ciao, -- Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald - http://www.Lichtvoll.de GPG: 03B0 0D6C 0040 0710 4AFA B82F 991B EAAC A599 84C7
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