From owner-freebsd-scsi Sun Sep 6 20:51:51 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA07622 for freebsd-scsi-outgoing; Sun, 6 Sep 1998 20:51:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from feral.com (gw100.feral.com [192.67.166.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA07617 for ; Sun, 6 Sep 1998 20:51:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mjacob@feral.com) Received: from localhost (mjacob@localhost) by feral.com (8.8.6/8.8.6) with SMTP id UAA02556; Sun, 6 Sep 1998 20:51:27 -0700 Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1998 20:51:26 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Jacob X-Sender: mjacob@feral-gw Reply-To: mjacob@feral.com To: Chris Csanady cc: freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CAM device naming.. In-Reply-To: <199809070340.WAA12543@friley-185-114.res.iastate.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, 6 Sep 1998, Chris Csanady wrote: > As the device naming is different in CAM anyways, would there be any > possibility of taking it one step further? I have found it to be > quite nice in other OS's that actually use subdirectories for disk > names, terminals, etc. It makes /dev a much cleaner place imho. > > Also, I would love for the names to actually be based upon the > scsi controller, id, lun, partition etc.. although, I suppose there > is no way in hell this will happen. :P It sucks when a disk goes > away, and then every last entry in your fstab is incorrect though. In a multipathing environment this is not right. It has no meaning on fibre fabrics. I really strongly suggest that leaving the names the way they are right now is fine until a suitable volume binder exists. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message