Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 12 Jan 1998 00:24:28 -0800 (PST) | From | Jauder Ho <> | Subject | Re: devfs |
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like I said before.. I would like to see the linux naming scheme as similar to the solaris one as possible...
you can even have /dev/sda1 point to /dev/dsk/.....
--Jauder
On Sun, 11 Jan 1998, Mitch Adair wrote:
> > > > 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 > > To my thinking, any combination of letter and numbers is equally > valid... once you've figured out what they all stand for ;) > I was just voting for the one that is closest to what I am > used to working with - the Solaris naming scheme. Since the > positions are the same its not that bad - just doesn't roll of the > tongue quite like c0b0t0d0s0 :) > > Whichever you decide on for the specifics of host, bus, etc., however, > I would also vote for the idea someone suggested of putting the sd as a > directory. Again, Solaris has fe /dev/dsk/c0t3d0s0, and I think it is just > nice conceptually to have: > > /dev/sd/... > /dev/sr/... > /dev/st/... > /dev/md/... > /dev/rsd/... (eventually ;) > > Mitch > (hope nobody gets the idea from this I'd like Linux to be like Solaris, > ANYTHING but that ... its just this one thing :) >
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