Hostility in plain sight
Hostility in plain sight
Posted Dec 21, 2012 9:21 UTC (Fri) by nix (subscriber, #2304)In reply to: Hostility in plain sight by mathstuf
Parent article: The eudev project launches
Because that
- only works for disk devices
- requires me to figure out whether /dev/disk/by-id works for this particular sort of device
- requires me to compensate for ID string changes across udev upgrades (which have happened, though rarely), adding yet *another* source of pain to udev upgrades
- doesn't actually help with the problem described at all because the /dev/disk/by-id names are still symlinks.
- only works for disk devices
- requires me to figure out whether /dev/disk/by-id works for this particular sort of device
- requires me to compensate for ID string changes across udev upgrades (which have happened, though rarely), adding yet *another* source of pain to udev upgrades
- doesn't actually help with the problem described at all because the /dev/disk/by-id names are still symlinks.
/dev/backup and other such nodes are identified by whatever I see fit and wired in via hardwired udev rules; generally I use the USB device serial number and wire in the partition number explicitly. It has never broken (modulo the now-I-can't-rename-but-have-to-symlink thing).
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