Date: Wed, 19 Apr 95 11:33:42 -0700 From: Bakul Shah <bakul@netcom.com> To: hackers@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: [DEVFS] your opinions sought! Message-ID: <199504191833.LAA26076@netcom19.netcom.com>
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I like the scheme but I have a few questions: What does a /dev/disk/<whatever> relate to for removable media? The drive or disk? If I have two ZIP drives (which have removable disks) and swap the disks will I end up writing to the wrong disk? What happens if a non-removable disk appears at a different SCSI address? What would one configure the kernel? Swap on /dev/sd0b or swap on /dev/<some-disk-id>? The former refers to a specific disk partition on a drive attached to a specific scsi address, the latter says I don't care where that disk is but if you find it, use it for swapping. Similar question for disk mirroring in software.
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