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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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