[Novalug] Device naming.

[Jay Hart]

Alan,

Under Windows, open "My Computer" and you should see your drives.  If you have
any other questions I'm sure an IRC chat room exists for helping you out.

Jay

> *sigh*
> In a world with only static and permanent attached devices you MAY have
> had a point. You seem to have missed the whole change away from /dev/*
> device pointers. We don't use them anymore for good reason. I would love
> to see how you would define device names STATICLY for USB devices using
> your scheme.
>
> You should go read some of ALL the wonderful documentation on udev,
> fuse, dm etc. which clearly documents how/why things have changed since
> the 80's and 90's.
>
> On Thu, 2010-03-11 at 10:37 -0500, Alan Grimes wrote:
>
>> Due to the lack of documentation on the subject, I have been forced to
>> do my own investigation and make my own conclusions regarding recent
>> changes to the naming of devices on linux.
>>
>> My verdict is that it's the latest example in a chain of spectacularly
>> bad design decisions made by linux developers (Penguins) in the past
>> year or two.
>
> [....]
>
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