Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 14:07:33 +0100 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Rasmus Skaarup <mfbsd@skaarup.org> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: GEOM code ready for testing Message-ID: <25020.1015938453@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 12 Mar 2002 14:05:29 %2B0100." <20020312135947.A19503-100000@skaarup.org>
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In message <20020312135947.A19503-100000@skaarup.org>, Rasmus Skaarup writes: >> Well, the recognition/configuration issue is not one GEOM magically can >> solve for you, but GEOM promises that if you can recognize it and >> configure it, GEOM will not get in your way for doing what you want. > >But what if the name of the device somehow depended on the ID on the >device? So you could recognize the same disk on multiple hosts, and having >the same name for the device on each host. > >But this should maybe be left up to the method to assign? The methods decide the names of their g_geom and g_providers. If you look in the BSD and MBR modules, you can see how they simply tack a letter or "s%d" onto the name from below. There is nothing to prevent you from creating an entirely new name if you want to. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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