c0t3d0s0
instead of assigning new names? it's enough of a pain in the ass to have to
remember the solaris naming scheme. And the last time I had to handle 200 disks
for a raid system, it gave me an intense headache trying to juggle these in my
head.
--jauder
On Wed, 7 Jan 1998, Richard Gooch wrote:
> Pavel Machek writes:
> > Hi!
> >
> > > back to the topic :
> > > with the above registry in /proc, and a good makedev software (more a
> > > device manager), i see no need for a /dev filesystem.
> >
> > Well, you would have to rerun makedev software every time module is
> > inserted. Advantage of devfs was that it was up-to-date without
> > needing to run makedev after every change. devfs also might have
> > chance to solve scsi naming problems.
>
> Thank you, Pavel. The running of makedev every time a module is
> loaded/unloaded is likely to be *much* slower than devfs.
>
> And I certainly have SCSI disc naming in my sights... With devfs you
> can have both the old-style /dev/sd{a,b,c} as well as something like
> the Solaris scheme:
>
> /dev/hHcCiIlLpP
>
> where <H> is the host controller number, <C> is the channel number,
> <I> is the SCSI ID, <L> is the logical unit and <P> is the partition
> number (stripe in Solaris parlance). So, the following system:
>
> scsi : 1 host.
> Detected scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
> Detected scsi disk sdb at scsi0, channel 0, id 1, lun 0
> Detected scsi disk sdc at scsi0, channel 0, id 3, lun 0
> Partition check:
> sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 sda4 < sda5 sda6 sda7 >
> sdb: sdb1
> sdc: sdc1 sdc2
>
> would have the following:
>
> /dev/h0c0i0l0p1
> /dev/h0c0i0l0p2
> /dev/h0c0i0l0p3
> /dev/h0c0i0l0p4
> /dev/h0c0i0l0p5
> /dev/h0c0i0l0p6
> /dev/h0c0i0l0p7
>
> /dev/h0c0i1l0p1
>
> /dev/h0c0i3l0p1
> /dev/h0c0i3l0p2
>
> Regards,
>
> Richard....
>
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