OCD programmers and backwards compatibility :-).

Alan alan at lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
Mon Jan 22 16:23:27 UTC 2007


> How do you make that happen as the devices are autodetected?  I'd much 
> prefer
> to have things identified by controller/drive/lun where applicable than 
> to have
> everything jump around when a new device appears and happens to be
> detected first.

That is all handled by udev on a current Fedora distribution. Older
systems keep a /dev on disk and the mapping is up to the user. Newer
systems its dynamic because hardware is more dynamic nowdays.

> In other words they didn't care how much of how many people's time they 
> wasted.  

It would move anyway to /usr/X11R7. So why not fix the historic oddity
that X lives in its own space which makes it messy to share over NFS and
friends.

Alan




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