Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:23:18 -0600 | From | Nomad the Wanderer <> | Subject | Device naming??? |
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ok, /dev/sda, etc is nice and handy, but in the event of a disk not spinning up right, you can really get hosed. If you loose a disk that's needed and it mounts another in it's place (since names are asigned to the device each boot) it can really trash some important files.
How hard/bad would it be to make SUN style naming such as /dev/c0t1d0s0 and such work for /etc/fstab, lilo and such? This could make life easier and also safer. If you loose a scratch disk, it might not mount your backup disk over it and have a cron-job clean your backup files out for scratch space...
Robert
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