User-friendly disk names
User-friendly disk names
Posted Jun 23, 2011 23:43 UTC (Thu) by giraffedata (guest, #1954)In reply to: User-friendly disk names by jengelh
Parent article: User-friendly disk names
But we're talking about kernel device names, not names of device special files. When the kernel warns about errors on a disk device, it identifies it by kernel device name and udev is irrelevant.
Except with at least some of these proposals, where udev could give the kernel a more meaningful name to use in communicating with the user.
The "sdaq" naming is really just a waste of a namespace. The kernel might as well talk to you in major/minor numbers.
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