Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 18:47:13 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> To: Adrian Chadd <adrian@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How much do we need the all-singing, all-dancing devfs? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10007271844460.59725-100000@beppo.feral.com> In-Reply-To: <20000727094015.B71137@ywing.creative.net.au>
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> Matt - if I understand your initial idea right, all you wanted was a way > to map a fibrechannel disk label to a name in a devfs, so that when the > underlying device shifted 'address', you would still be able to reference > it without difficulty? Was there anything else ? No- I want to map a *device*- I don't *particularly* care what it's name is (the thing put in /etc/fstab or handed to 'mt')- but I do not necessarily want to have to write to it (for a label) to address it. I can guarantee that the address won't shift while the system is running. The other aspect of this is that these are unique names. This makes High Availability device management a *snap*. It's WWNXXXXX on all systems on the same fabric. -matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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