Tom H writes: It took me a bit of time to gather the informations I needed. I can bet that this did not disturb you.
The good thing (at least for me :)) is that systemd + systemd-sysv make the new system a drop-in replacement. Sometimes other issues are more important that boot speed. > > /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules > > Also, Debian patches udev to only enable the new naming scheme > > when booting with net.ifnames=1. I asked Marco D'Itri about the naming of the network cards. He told me he's unsure they'll have the time to maintain the old naming, since Red Hat does not want to mantain it. Therefore if you succeed to upgrade to a new distribution with dist-upgrade you are safe. If you reinstall / and /usr or migrate something you wrote for previous versions to new installation, you have to deal with the naming change. > > (AFAIK this has nothing at all to do with systemd, other than udev > > sharing its git repository and a certian amount of FUD possibly going on.) AFAIK udev is part of systemd > Can you guarantee that Debian won't adopt "=1" by default by the time > jessie freezes? It's C code... :) :) :) :) Not likely to change from 0 to 1 ... :) > Can you guarantee that people won't keep on saying "systemd/udev are > gping to break your networking becuase they're going to change your > nic names"? Changing nic names could break network scripts, all the scripts that assume that the network interfaces are named in a certain way. You have none of them? Good, you can write "relax & enjoy" for this part of your migration plan. Otherwise you have to plan a fix for this. Incidentally it breaks the script I wrote for myself for dealing with different fixed-network configuration in my work laptop :), but nothing some line of shell scripting and Emacs Lisp can't fix almost automatically. One laptop is a nuisance, several tens of server is another issue. That's for what could/will happen. As for my personal opinion, the change of the network names by Red Hat is a case of unnecessary ibiemmitis and the Debian decision to move to systemd, at least this quickly, is bad, not this bad as I feared. Glad for being partially wrong on this issue, Mr. Short S. Manager will think that is good because Red Hat did the same and will not stop Random J. Hacker to use Debian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/21252.47444.986714.2...@mail.eng.it
