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SubjectRe: Ideas for v2.1
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In linux.dev.kernel, Robert L Krawitz <rlk@tiac.net> wrote:
>Maybe we need to go to a
>system like what Solaris uses, where the controller type, controller
>number, disk/target number, and partition number are all encoded into
>the name.

This does sound like an excellent idea, especially WRT SCSI disks.

If I have three SCSI disks at ID 0, 2 and 4, and I take out the disk
with ID 2, /dev/sdc currently gets remapped to /dev/sdb, which is a
Bad Thing.


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