Messages in this thread | | | From | "Dave Cinege" <> | Date | Wed, 07 May 97 04:21:39 -0500 | Subject | Re: SCSI disk devices |
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On Mon, 5 May 1997 19:31:44 -0400, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote:
> Date: Sat, 3 May 1997 19:33:34 -0400 > From: Eric Youngdale <eric@andante.jic.com> > > If I get a clear indication that this is the direction we want > to go, then scsidev can be cleaned up and enhanced (making it volume > label aware is one enhancement I wanted to add, especially now that > ext2 supports volume labels). It also should be made filesystem aware > too, I think so that it can recognize various types of filesystems > (this is a prerequisite to being able to snarf the volume labels). > >I had always thought that the right approach would go far beyond >scsidev; if you have a volume management daemon that would automatically >do the right thing based on the volume ID (pretty much all filesystems >have them now: ext2, iso9660, even MS-DOS FAT), then who cares what the >device name is?
This is what I want to see....a daemon to handle it would be a very good idea.
Only thing is you would need SOME type of support in the kernel for the linux root partition to be able to work from a label.
>If properly managed, we could manage to completely hide block device >names from the user altogether, and let it be all managed from a >user-mode daemon. This would obviously be a lot of work, but I fancy >the end result would be really cool. :-)
Well I don't think that is a complete possibility. The scsi problem eventully needs to get fixed. Sometimes you just WANT to work with a raw block device (a la dd if=/dev/sda)
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