edgy->feisty cdrom mountpoint

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 11:35:13PM +0200, Soren Hansen wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 02:03:39PM -0700, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > > > > Which systems does that affect in particular? My /dev/cdrom is
> > > > > /dev/hdb, as it has always been.
> > > > It probably affects the same systems which had their hard discs change
> > > > from /dev/hd* to /dev/sd*.
> > > No, they should all be moved to UUID based fstab's, no? We can't
> > > really do that with removable devices, AFAICS.
> > This is a static mount point intended to allow any volume to be
> > mounted on the standard mount point; mounting it by UUID (and
> > therefore making it specific to one volume) would defeat the purpose.
> 
> Ah, ok. I thought you were suggesting that changes needed to me made to
> accommodate the systems where the new kernel had changed the hard drives
> from ATA-like ones to SCSI-like ones.
> 
> My bad. :-)

I was suggesting that systems which had the problem Michael described (where
the CD-ROM device changed from hd* to scd*) were probably the same systems
where discs changed from hd* to sd* (which is a substantial number).

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 - mdz