interesting article, for all those who think Ubuntu is already easy

[Derek Broughton]

Alan McKinnon wrote:

> On Tuesday 30 May 2006 10:50, Scott James Remnant wrote:
>> > I replied that udev fixes this. When the kernel sends a udev
>> > event, the OS is in a position to note that this is a drive never
>> > used on this machine before an ask the user what to call the
>> > *drive* in future, giving the user persistent repeatable names to
>> > different drives. The udev framework to do this is there. The
>> > userland tools to respond are not there - that's the day that
>> > will come soon. Meanwhile he can edit his rules files by hand.
>>
>> No, you misunderstand me; this is exactly what I was talking about
>> and it's not going to happen in a million years.

And you're still hooked on it being a /dev/ name.  Nobody cares about /dev -
that should belong to the kernel.  However, udev is capable of setting up
_any_ symlink.  Alan's suggestion could as easily be used to ensure
something becomes /media/myIpod, /mnt/myiPod, or ~/Desktop/myIpod (the last
might be a little awkward).
 
> You are not answering our questions. You keep saying it's bad but
> don't say why it's bad.
> 
> So, why is it bad?

>> Nobody should care what /dev/sdXY a device gets, that's a temporary
>> name assigned for that session only -- use persistent names such as
>> /dev/disk/*

And your example of doing that fails to show my CD/DVD burner.  Alan's
suggestion was, afaict, _exactly_ to avoid requiring /dev names by
providing persistent names somewhere else.
-- 
derek