Subject: Re: partition bookkeeping
To: Oleg Polyanski <luke@eed.miee.ru>
From: Ignatios Souvatzis <is@jocelyn.rhein.de>
List: tech-kern
Date: 09/22/1999 22:56:56
On Thu, Sep 23, 1999 at 12:47:43AM +0400, Oleg Polyanski wrote:
> 
>  IS> I, as a rule, jumper the system disks (all the non-external disks) to
>  IS> the low scsi id's, so that they don't jump if I change the external
>  IS> configurations. :-)
> 
> 	Too many magic,  IMO. In both  cases.  I vote for  good device naming
> 	scheme that will prevent from annoying mistakes.

... and prevents you to make booting GENERIC kernels.

	-is