Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1998 12:22:55 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami) Cc: scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: for i in disks Message-ID: <199810201922.MAA00566@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 20 Oct 1998 04:43:02 PDT." <199810201143.EAA17327@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu>
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> Hi folks,
>
> I'm thinking about implementing an "autorun"-like mechanism for disks.
> The idea is to have a script with a known name on a known position
> (say, partition `a' on the first BSD slice) which is called during
> boot. The script does something to set up the disk (mount some other
> partition, or set up a ccd, or something like that).
>
> However, to do this, I need to be able to write a loop in /etc/rc* to
> iterate through all available disks. I guess devfs when fully
> implemented will make this easy ("/devfs/da[0-9]*s?a"?) but my
> understanding is that it is not ready yet. I could try mounting all
> the nodes in /dev (the ones that are not available will presumably
> just fail) but with up to 96 disks per system, that could be a lot of
> failures.
Nah, it's actually pretty trivial. I would, indeed, just iterate over
the available nodes in /dev. When devfs comes along, it'll just get
more efficient.
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