Re: [Utopia] Re: Removable devices and fstab

[Nathaniel McCallum <npmccallum gentoo org>]

On Mon, 2004-08-30 at 22:04 +0200, Kristof Vansant wrote:
> udev creates the /dev/sda4. I believe you can configure udev to use
> other names...
> 
> udev tells hald what /dev/name it has given a certain device if I'm not
> mistaking

It does, I was merely pointing out a problem.  It has been somewhat
addressed in udev.  However, the problem hasn't gone away yet.  udev
still largely names by device type and does so dynamically, thus device
names for certain devices can change at runtime, which is a security
hole when it comes to pluggin in hotplugable hardware.  We still need
fstab unique id referances

Nathaniel