On Friday 19 November 2004 19:24, Joe Polk wrote:
Why ask why? This is the way the current auto-mounting system works. You're now free of setting up /etc/fstab entries for this class of devices (including flash RAM disks and CD/DVD drives, as well). I'm willing to call it a good thing.
No I don't think you understand. It worked before. It automounted and got a device name. It may have been /dev/sda1 or something, but that is far more reasonable that this cryptic desi, that's my point. From a user perspective, it's uglier than before. This, in that respect, is bad.
I don't think the device name has changed, has it? Isn't it just the directory on which it is mounted? I think the point of it is that since the name is derived from the USB ID of the device, it will always be the same, so you will always get it in the same location, instead of as before having it be dependant on which order things were plugged in Lots of people were complaining about especially USB and SCSI, that there was no good way of predicting where things would end up, it varied according to which order it was connected, and which order it was scanned by the drivers. This way you know at least one thing: which directory you can use to access it