Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 14 Jul 1997 01:10:42 +0200 (MET DST) | From | Michael Neuffer <> | Subject | Re: kernel-managed /dev, revisited |
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On Sun, 13 Jul 1997, Harald Milz wrote:
> Date: Sun, 13 Jul 1997 15:54:00 +0200 > From: Harald Milz <hm@seneca.muc.de> > To: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu > Subject: Re: kernel-managed /dev, revisited > > Teunis Peters (teunis@usa.net) wrote: > > > > Now that I think about it though, I toss in a vote for: > > s<?><id><lun> > > on naming though (eg tape on ID 4 lun 0 == st40 or the like) > > Err - this limits you to 9 LUNs per SCSI ID. Please don't do it... SSA will > allow many, many disks per (virtual mapped) SCSI ID and would definitely > not profit from it! > > It's easier to unambiguously parse something like > s<host>i<target id>l<lun>
This would be incomplete, since a controller can have more then one bus, it would have to be:
s<host>c<channel>i<target id>l<lun>
Mike
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