Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Tue, 12 Oct 1999 00:28:55 -0400 (EDT) | | From | Stephen Frost <> | | Subject | Re: scsi disk detection and /dev names, RE: My $.02 on the raging de vfs debate |
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On Mon, 11 Oct 1999, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote:
> In message <7ttjbt$rrq$1@palladium.transmeta.com>, H. Peter Anvin writes: > +----- > | too complex, noone will use them. Solaris has a very complete > | location-based device naming scheme, but I know very few Solaris > | administrators who use those names, as opposed to the short > | symlinks. > +--->8 > > I know quite a few Solaris admins who do use them. It seems in my > experience to correlate more with whether those admins came from a BSD / > SunOS environment or a System V environment.
If you had read and followed the rest of his comment you would have seen he was referring to the /devices tree as being not used often, while admins tended to use the /dev tree (populated with symlinks). I have never seen a Solaris system that had the /devices tree name in it's /etc/vfstab.
Stephen
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