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On Saturday, 23 December 2006 2:40, Sven Köhler wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> so as you plugin a USB-disk, the kernel will recognize it, and it will |
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> be called sda, sdb, sdc or whatever ... |
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> I don't like that - why doesn't it get some more usefull device-name? |
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> Some device name, that |
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> a) indicates, that it is usb (for example put them to /dev/usb) and |
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> b) uses a numering not depending on how many harddisk there are in the |
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> system |
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> So for example /dev/usb/uda could be a symlink to /dev/sdb, |
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> /dev/usb/uda1 a symlink to /dev/sdb1 etc. |
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> (In this case, sda would be a normal harddisk, which is the reason why |
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> the usb-device is sdb) |
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> So i don't know any other distribution doing it like that. So what do |
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> you think? |
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> - is it possible? |
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> - is it a good idea? |
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> - is it such a good idea, so that gentoo becomes the first distribution |
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> doing it? |
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> - is it a bad idea to differ from all the other distros out there? |
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> Thanks, |
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> Sven |
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Take a look at the contents of /dev/disk/ or if you don't like that, read up |
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on writing your own udev rules and you can give devices whatever device node |
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you want. |
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Raymond Lewis Rebbeck |
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