Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 12 Jan 1998 21:21:54 -0800 (PST) | From | Jauder Ho <> | Subject | Re: disk naming proposal & devfs (fwd) |
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okay. I don't want to have to visually or write a script to grok output that can look like
/dev/c0t0d0s0
or
/dev/c0t0s0
or something else just because it's not supported in *your* hardware. I have to administer a LOT of machines and consequently the simpler my life is the better it is. I don't particularly care about it "looking pretty" as your suggestion would make it, I am primarily interested in having a COMMON naming scheme ranging from the oldest and slowest SCSI-I drives to the latest and greatest Ultra Wide SCSIs for instance.. the same go other devices too. define ONE naming scheme and stick to it.
--Jauder
On Tue, 13 Jan 1998, Kevin Lentin wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 12, 1998 at 08:46:39PM -0800, Jauder Ho wrote: > > > > okay... no dropping of things just because they don't support it. if it > > is not supported, just set it to 0. there are enough complexity with the naming > > scheme that we do not need parts of the device name dropped "because the device > > does not support it" > > I just find it annoying that my simple NCR53c710 and my scsi disk need to > be identified by 3 different pieces of information that convey 0 > information. That card only has one bus and disks don't have multi-luns. At > least my simple ones don't. > > I can understand the bus argument just a little bit but why do I have to > tell it I want LUN 0 of my simple seagate 1gig scsi disk. And if I have > the kernel configured not to probe LUNs greater than 0 (for that is an > existing config option) then present the devices with LUNs in them makes no > sense at all. > > -- > [======================================================================] > [ Kevin Lentin Email: K.Lentin@cs.monash.edu.au ] > [ finger kevinl@fangorn.cs.monash.edu.au for PGP public key block. ] > [ KeyId: 06808EED FingerPrint: 6024308DE1F84314 811B511DBA6FD596 ] > [======================================================================] >
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