Re: bonding: cannot remove certain named devices

From: Alan Cox
Date: Thu Aug 17 2006 - 20:12:14 EST


Ar Iau, 2006-08-17 am 16:23 -0700, ysgrifennodd David Miller:
> Nobody in their right mind puts a space in their network device name.

It works fine. Been there done that. I'm probably not in my right mind
but it causes no problems. Nor btw does UTF-8 naming which is handy if
you want to name your devices in Japanese or Arabic...

> All you "name purists", go rename the block device name that is used
> for your root partition to something with a space in it

Works fine. It doesn't work fine for non root volumes (except by label)
because of the fstab format but root is ok !

Alan
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