Subject: Re: The obvious inherent superiority of SVR4 device naming...
To: der Mouse <mouse@Collatz.McRCIM.McGill.EDU>
From: Don Lewis <gdonl@gv.ssi1.com>
List: current-users
Date: 12/22/1994 16:17:44
On Dec 21, 10:11pm, der Mouse wrote:
} Subject: Re: The obvious inherent superiority of SVR4 device naming...
} I suppose it's a matter of taste.  I rather like having disk numbers
} (the number after "sd") assigned from zero upwards as the kernel scans
} the available controllers and target IDs.

I worry about automagic stuff like that.  What happens if one of my
disks with a low ID dies and the system mounts a data partition as
swap?

			---  Truck