[ale] fstab question

[Jeff Hubbs]

Unsurprising; I personally haven't used an hd device in quite some time 
except for a thin client system I'm running right now whose CF card in a 
CardBus adapter comes up as /dev/hda.  So I guess it's the PCMCIA stuff 
that's doing that. 

Greg Freemyer wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 3:42 PM, Jeff Hubbs <jhubbslist at att.net> wrote:
>   
>> Because Gentoo uses udev to facilitate persistent naming, this isn't
>> much of an issue...I've been using hd, sd, and md devices/partitions for
>> years and have never had anything get flipped.
>>     
>
> Jeff,
>
> It did not go anywhere, but I just saw a lkml thread discussing
> end-of-life (EOL)-ing the /dev/hdX drviver interface.
>
> As part of the discussion, fstab entries with /dev/hdX was was brought
> up as roadblock.  After a few emails they concluded there were so few
> users still doing that, that it was not a roadblock.  (I was very
> surprised by that.)
>
> But they also agreed there was no hurry to EOL the /dev/hdX driver
> set, so they just dropped the discussion.  I assume in a year or two
> they will pick it back up.
>
> But if you are depending on /dev/hdX names being stable into the
> distant future, at some point you will be proven wrong and will have
> to change to /dev/sdX names.  If you were using mount by label, etc.,
> then you would not have a problem.
>
> Greg
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