Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult wrote:
> On 31.12.2014 15:44, Hendrik Boom wrote:
>> Never mind the mechanisms for now.
>> May I ask what all this complexity is supposed to accomplish?
> I'd say, it's for letting the machine do the things automatically.
> Probably not required for servers, but quite helpful for end user
> machines, where regularily new/other devices are plugged in.
>

I wouldn't quite go as far as "not required for servers" - one does
occasionally swap network cards, hot-swap a disk drive, or plug in a
console.

Then again, the automatic mechanisms don't necessarily work all that
well - things like dynamic address assignment don't work all that well
in a server environment (the cause of more than one all-nighter, in the
early days of udev, trying to figure out things like why a server
wouldn't talk to the net, after updgrading a network card).

Miles Fidelman




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