Messages in this thread |  | | From | "Graham Mitchell" <> | Date | Fri, 14 Jun 1996 04:08:54 +0000 | Subject | Re: Ideas for v2.1 |
| |
On 13 Jun 96 at 12:16, Henning Schmiedehausen wrote:
> I'd like to see a new harddisk device naming scheme which allowes me > to disconnect one of my SCSI harddisks without having to rename _all_ > my mounts on disks behind this one just because Linux has a > br********ed way to dynamically allocate device nodes to harddrives. > > What is wrong with > > /dev/sdaa0 for first primary partition on SCSI ID 0 on the first controller > /dev/sdbc5 for the first secondary partition on ID 3 on the 2nd controller
Yes, or something along the lines of the SysVr4 disk naming convention of c0t0d0s0, where c0 is the controller, t0 is something I cant remember off hand, d0 is the disk number on the controller (the SCSI ID), and s0 is the slice number (partition). We might need to add onto that a bus number for those machines with multiple SCSI and/or EISA busses.
> We could even make this in a compatible and decent way: Just keep the > old sd<x> stuff and create them dynamic at boot time as links onto the > device nodes for the drives (/dev/sdaa0 - /dev/sdhh7 for seven SCSI > controllers e.g.).
That sounds a reasonable idea, should make the changes from the existing default minimal, and allow the system to grow (it should also include CDROMs and tape drives too).
> I'd really like to see this. :-)
I hate 'me too' postings, but me too
Graham ---------------------------------------------------------- The world isnt run by weapons any more, or energy or money Its run by little 1s and 0s, little bits of data Its all just electrons ----------------------------------------------------------
|  |