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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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