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    SubjectRe: devfs
    Mitch Adair writes:
    > >
    > > On Sun, 11 Jan 1998, Richard Gooch wrote:
    > > > > This allows then to stay compatible with their naming sheme but has the
    > > > > drawback of dropping support for LUNs. This only works properly for the
    > > > > special case of the SSAs since you only have disk drives in them.
    > > > >
    > > > > However I do not think that we should make the same mistake as them
    > > > > and cut ourselves off from supporting multi LUN devices.
    > > >
    > > > Agreed! Considering this, I'm open to alternative naming schemes, but
    > > > only if they preserve the information.
    > >
    > > The easiest would be to add a field so that it looks like the following:
    > >
    > > cCbBtTdDsS
    > >
    > > <C> == controller
    > > <B> == bus/channel on controller
    > > <T> == target (ID)
    > > <D> == LUN
    > > <S> == slice/partition
    > >
    > Yes, *please* use this layout. Those of us who've been dainbramaged by
    > our exposure to Solaris would really appreciate it, I think. :)

    So how about my original scheme:

    sd_hHcCiIlLpP

    <H> -> host controller
    <C> -> SCSI channel/bus
    <I> -> SCSI target ID
    <L> -> LUN
    <P> -> partition

    > I think devfs is a great idea, good work.

    Thanks.

    Regards,

    Richard....

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