[sclug] Idle curiosity about device naming limits (slightly OT)

[Alex Butcher]

On Fri, 23 Sep 2005, James Wyper wrote:

> --- Will Dickson <wrd at glaurung.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>> It strikes me that, with the current explosion of nifty mass-storage
>> systems which all use SCSI and / or SCSI emulation (SATA RAIDs, USB
>> mass-storage devices etc.) one could end up with /dev/sd[a-z] all being
>> occupied. Does anybody happen to know what the next device to be plugged
>> in would be called?
>>
>> Will.
>
> A fire risk?

:-)

Good call!

> On a related note, if I have two USB mass-storage devices, is it
> possible to configure things so that device A is always recognised as
> /dev/sda1 and device B as /dev/sdb1 without having to always plug in
> device A before device B?

If the filesystems on them are being mounted in a consistent place (e.g.
/media/<filesystem label>), do you really care which device node they show
up under? This is the approach modern distros (e.g. Fedora, CentOS) which
use hal, hotplug and friends take.

> Thanks,
> James.

Best Regards,
Alex.
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