Re: Ideas for v2.1
Thomas Koenig (ig25@fg70.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de)
13 Jun 1996 09:48:21 +0200
In linux.dev.kernel, Robert L Krawitz <rlk@tiac.net> wrote:
>Maybe we need to go to a
>system like what Solaris uses, where the controller type, controller
>number, disk/target number, and partition number are all encoded into
>the name.
This does sound like an excellent idea, especially WRT SCSI disks.
If I have three SCSI disks at ID 0, 2 and 4, and I take out the disk
with ID 2, /dev/sdc currently gets remapped to /dev/sdb, which is a
Bad Thing.