Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 1 May 1997 22:59:46 -0700 (PDT) | From | "Mr. James W. Laferriere Network Engineer" <> | Subject | Re: SCSI disk devices, cXtXsXdX Naming scheme -NOT- Please |
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Hello All,
On Thu, 1 May 1997, Manish Vachharajani wrote: > > Date: Thu, 1 May 1997 06:15:40 -0400 > From: Eric Youngdale <eric@andante.jic.com> > > I am not 100% sure what the best long term solution is. Some > people have suggested that a /proc/scsi/dev/ tree be populated with > names and links that are somewhat representative of whatever the ID, > etc, are for the underlying device. I don't know what the performance > impact would be of doing something like this, but on the surface it > doesn't seem unreasonable. I guess my reaction is that I would prefer > the solution live outside of the kernel (and hence scsidev), as it is > more configurable and adaptable. > > At the very least though, I think the kernel should allocate minor > scsi device numbers based on controller number and id. This way the > things will change in a predictable manner(Though I guess numbering > sequentially based on existing devices is predicatable as well, just > not convenient.) > > This would be very useful in conjunction with a cxtxsxdx naming ^^^^^^^^ -YUCK- !
I beg of you, -all- of you. please do -NOT- implement this naming scheme it just plain isn't easily readable. I for one would not want to have to spell Superman's Greatest enemies name backwards everytime I wanted to access or use a device. ( Now that dates me ;-)
Please find another OS'ism to copy.
> scheme. I can then add a disk with an id of say 1, when my root disk > id is 3 and not get an unbootable system unless I do a root=/dev/sdx. > I am not sure how to deal with LUN's on devices in this scheme though. > > -- > Manish Vachharajani <mvachhar@noc.rutgers.edu> > Rutgers University http://www-no.rutgers.edu/~mvachhar > Telecommunications Division > Systems Programmer > Tia, JimL +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | James W. Laferriere - Network Engineer - babydr@nwrain.net | | System Techniques - 25416 - 22nd S. - Kent, WA 98032 | | Give me VMS -or- Give me Linux -but- only on AXP | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ |-> Linux-Vax Port, Still in Progress . IE: No Progress To Report ;-) <-| +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
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