Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 11 Jan 1998 22:04:10 +1100 | From | Richard Gooch <> | Subject | Re: devfs |
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Michael Neuffer writes: > 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
Well, perhaps. The down side to doing that is I'd have to edit the code and change all my compatibility symlinks and my /etc/fstab :-( However if there is a general push to adopting your modified Solaris scheme, I'll go with that.
Regards,
Richard....
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