> On Mon, 3 Aug 1998, Edward S. Marshall wrote:
>
> > It's a required patch for the machines I manage at this point.
>
> The devfs patch takes Linux one step further toward being Enterprise
> ready. The current scheme where a device identification can alter after a
> planned or unplanned configuration change... that is OK for most home
> systems where there is only one or two hard disks. And it is clearly OK
> for developers, who Know What They Are Doing. But it is weird and strange
> and potentially disasterous in a larger systems environment.
A less intrusive alternative is scsidev. It queries the scsi interface
at boottime, and creates the appropiate /dev/scsi nodes. Available from
tsx-11.mit.edu /pub/linux/ALPHA/scsi/
Of course devfs is still a good thing, but it is not really needed for the
application you describe.
-Andi
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