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Domsch: Consistent Network Device Naming coming to Fedora 15

Domsch: Consistent Network Device Naming coming to Fedora 15

Posted Jan 27, 2011 20:28 UTC (Thu) by aliguori (subscriber, #30636)
Parent article: Domsch: Consistent Network Device Naming coming to Fedora 15

When we introduced paravirtual block devices for KVM, we used the naming convention /dev/vdX because it seemed like a nice thing to do verses just exposing it like a SCSI device.

Over the years, I've been startled about the number of scripts (some in large projects) that assume all block devices are either /dev/hd* or /dev/sd* and subsequently broke.

I understand the motivation here, and agree that it's a useful thing to do, but lots of stuff will in break in subtle ways after this.


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