Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 21 Feb 2000 07:25:11 -0500 | From | Wakko Warner <> | Subject | Re: new or old devfs naming scheme (Was: Re: devfs howto) |
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> > > > 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.
I remember the war over this some months ago, I do not wish to start it back up.
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