"Chris G. Demetriou" <cgd@cs.cmu.edu> writes:

> It does the "right thing" in most "simple" environments

It does the right thing if you never change your scsi setup. The other
approach (to name devices after scsi-id rather than after the order
they are detected) also works in these simple cases.

The BSD-approach fails when you move, add or remove units from *any*
chain.

Naming devices after some physical attribute is, IMO, better than just
having them assigned to some `random' number.

/Johan