[geeks] Swapping Sparc boxes...

[Mike Meredith]

On Fri, 5 Dec 2003 10:12:34 -0500 (EST), Kurt Mosiejczuk wrote:
> > If Linux can't do that, they've really only solved half the problem,
> > although, it's still a welcome improvement.
> 
> Agreed.  I suspect Linux doesn't do it.  

I believe there's a project to do consistent naming properly by putting
labels on the disks/partitions. I wasn't very interested so can't recall
any names/URLs. Mind you I'm about to be interested when adding an
Adaptec will probably renumber all my HBA's.

> And I don't know if it has
> been corrected, but I recall one of the problems with devfs is that
> it's a memory-only, so if you tweak permissions, there needs to be an
> external mechanism to store them.  I haven't tracked it in a while
> though, so maybe they've fixed that...

man devfsd