Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Sun, 11 Jan 1998 12:00:53 +0100 (MET) | | From | Michael Neuffer <> | | Subject | Re: devfs |
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On Sun, 11 Jan 1998, Richard Gooch wrote: > > This allows then to stay compatible with their naming sheme but has the > > drawback of dropping support for LUNs. This only works properly for the > > special case of the SSAs since you only have disk drives in them. > > > > However I do not think that we should make the same mistake as them > > and cut ourselves off from supporting multi LUN devices. > > Agreed! Considering this, I'm open to alternative naming schemes, but > only if they preserve the information.
The easiest would be to add a field so that it looks like the following:
cCbBtTdDsS
<C> == controller <B> == bus/channel on controller <T> == target (ID) <D> == LUN <S> == slice/partition
Mike
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