On Thu, 29 Dec 2005, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Dec 29, Adam Heath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Because /eventually/ it will not be needed anymore (at least by most > > > users, which then will be able to remove it from their systems). > > Is there something to replace it, completely, in *all* situations? > udev, at least for the general case of users using devices in /dev, > fully replaces MAKEDEV. > > The only exceptions I can think about are broken drivers which have not > been ported to the device model (but I could not name any) and people > who create device nodes out of /dev for weird reasons (usually because > they need multiple copies of the same device with different owners).
Ok, pardon the noob questions, but here they come: How does persistance of the permission model work? Can I do chown/chmod on the dynamic files in /dev, and have them remain the next time? Even if a device node changes it's name? Or do I have to edit some alternative database? I've been running 2.6 for a while now. Lots of our servers do(all our xen machines). We've had no use for any dynamic device anything; in fact, I'd much prefer to not have anything dynamic on a server; stable names is all I want(which means the kernel renaming scsi devices is broken, but C'est La Vie). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
