Domsch: Consistent Network Device Naming coming to Fedora 15

My understanding of this issue, is that exists BEFORE you have the chance to get puppet or cfengine up and running. If you're doing a new image of 100 machines, your image doesn't necessarily have access to the cfengine or puppet server. Esp if the ethX might have different names. After things are up and running and you know which net dev to connect through then you can apply cfengine or whatnot to the problem, and get the 'details' of the system setup. In a lot of ways this problem probably has more to do with initrd, BusyBox, and nash more than anything else. As someone who has to do this, building complex initrd scripts is a pain in the butt, esp when it's figuring out which fracking net dev is the right one to connect through. It's not the script that's hard, it's the image->cpio->take a guess at fix->cpio->image->boot->rinse repeat that's a pain. And the less guess work taken out of that the better.

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