From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965860AbXCLNwg (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Mar 2007 09:52:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965870AbXCLNwg (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Mar 2007 09:52:36 -0400 Received: from mcr-smtp-002.bulldogdsl.com ([212.158.248.8]:2686 "EHLO mcr-smtp-002.bulldogdsl.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965860AbXCLNw3 (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Mar 2007 09:52:29 -0400 X-Spam-Abuse: Please report all spam/abuse matters to abuse@bulldogdsl.com From: Alistair John Strachan To: Frank van Maarseveen Subject: Re: 2.6.20*: PATA DMA timeout, hangs (2) Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 13:52:19 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20070312085447.GA10955@janus> <200703121207.19042.s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk> <20070312132546.GC12265@janus> In-Reply-To: <20070312132546.GC12265@janus> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200703121352.19505.s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Monday 12 March 2007 13:25, Frank van Maarseveen wrote: [snip] > So, are /dev/hd* going to disappear in a few years? iow, does it make > sense to _slowly_ start to migrate to /dev/sd*? How would you propose doing this? I'm sure modern distros with an initrd/initramfs probably already do some sort of root detection. Doesn't fix the fstab issue, but I suppose this could be auto-generated too. > The problem is there's no plan B in case of any troubles except rename > everything back again to boot an old kernel. I doubt this matters for distributors, as they'll simply switch over when you upgrade the distro, and the earliest supported kernel will be the one that shipped with the newer version. I accept that it's a bit of a drag, but it's better to have a standard naming convention for all disks, isn't it? Glad this is working for you. -- Cheers, Alistair. Final year Computer Science undergraduate. 1F2 55 South Clerk Street, Edinburgh, UK.