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SubjectRe: new or old devfs naming scheme (Was: Re: devfs howto)
On Mon, 21 Feb 2000, Wakko Warner wrote:

> > >
> > > Hello Richard, I have to agree with Sergey on the point
> > > of liking the old names over the new . But I guess I can
> > > get devfsd to create them for me can't I ? Tia, JimL
> >
> > Yes, you can. But they won't appear until devfsd is fired up. So you can't
> > mount the root fs with old name until the devfsd which happen to be on the
> > fs which you wanna mount is running... One can squeeze statically linked
> > devfsd into initrd, but with modular filesystems, lvm etc. it'll be rather
> > big one...
> >
> > Richard, is it possible and can be agreed upon with Linus to make a choice
> > of new names vs old ones a kernel boot option? I'd be helluva pleased to have
> > such an option. Isn't is ugly to have such a horror?
> >
> > === Cut ===
> > [root@nomad /root]# df
> > Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
> > /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1
> > 16973507 13840592 2248940 86% /
> > /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1
> > 8583124 6214693 1923351 76%
> > /home/ftp/ftp.ksi-linux.com
> > === Cut ===
>
> I have a question. I know this would be confusing for a user to understand
> at first. Is there a way to combine scsi controllers/channels and ide's
> into a single controller number? like c0 is scsi0:0 c1 is scsi0:1 and c2 is
> ide0 ? As I said, it would be confusing, I'm just wondering how hard it
> would be to add functionality like that into devfs. Personally, I like the
> idea of this and like the way solaris handles disk names.

Sure it is. One can use /dev/discs/* for a purpose...

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