Re: udev and devfs - The final word

[Shawn]

On Mon, 2004-01-05 at 16:25, Mark Mielke wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 04:17:57PM -0600, Shawn wrote:
> > ...
> > As an admin, would I at least theoretically have /some/ consistency if
> > merely for my own sanity when dealing with block devices by hand (I do
> > need to setup LVM stuff from time to time)??
> 
> If all you care about is that /dev names remain consistent, you need
> not fear. udev and devfs are two different ways of providing this
> consistency. They abstract the device numbers from the /dev names,
> meaning that you don't have to care if the numbers change. The names
> don't.
I'm obviously confused if this is true, as then I do not know how the
great and powerful udev derives the names if not from the numbers, or
some other sysfs info.

Anyway, assuming this is true, I have much less concern.
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