Re: Cset 1.1490.4.201 - dasd naming

[Martin Schwidefsky]

Hi Pete,

> > Is there a story of a real world deployment where the 2.4 scheme was
> > a hindrance which you could share? Honestly, I'm surprised you bring
> > the matter of "persistent names" instead of, say, exhaustion of
> > address range and majors.
> That is probably the main argument to go back to the old names. After
> udev and friends are in place it is not important how the disk is named
> internally. The only place where it would surface is on the root=
> parameter.
>
> I'll discuss this with the Horst again to see if we really need the
> dasd_<busid>_ names or if we can live with the old style names on the
> root= parameter.

We discussed udev and friends today again and we decided to go back to
the old dasdxyz names. You'll send the patch with the next update to
Andrew.

blue skies,
   Martin

Linux/390 Design & Development, IBM Deutschland Entwicklung GmbH
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