Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3156 mails)

["Carlos E. R." <robin.listas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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The Monday 2007-12-03 at 21:53 -1000, kanenas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> after re-reading the release notes i can see that libata can be disabled,
> thanks:)

Only for 10.3, in version 11 this workaround might disappear. That's 
their intention :-(

>  That would imply that all fake sdx references would have to be
> changed to hdx , no?
> But what comes next?
> I can manually change the grub and fstab entries, also some samba and nfs
> shares in yast, perhaps a few more configs, but there are many other
> references in many many other files, how can that be dealt with after the
> fact? would a symlink or three do it?

No, a symlink would not work.

You should change all the references to device independent ones, like 
label, id, or uuid (not sure if all are valid). Nowhere should you have 
references like "hda" or "sda".

In vmware... no idea.


> in 10.2 we had usbfs and smbfs as sources of similar anguish. is SuSe/linux
> big enough to dictate changes like that almost arbitrarily? Please note, i am
> not talking about technical merits...

Unfortunately, it's not suse alone, it's all of them (developers).

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Cheers,
       Carlos E. R.

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