From owner-freebsd-arch Mon Jul 24 13:51:15 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mail.integratus.com (miami.integratus.com [63.209.2.83]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CB9F137BB1F for ; Mon, 24 Jul 2000 13:51:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jar@integratus.com) Received: (qmail 23410 invoked from network); 24 Jul 2000 20:51:11 -0000 Received: from kungfu.integratus.com (HELO integratus.com) (172.20.5.168) by tortuga1.integratus.com with SMTP; 24 Jul 2000 20:51:11 -0000 Message-ID: <397CAC40.6E2DD4DB@integratus.com> Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 13:51:12 -0700 From: Jack Rusher Organization: Integratus X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Poul-Henning Kamp Cc: mjacob@feral.com, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SANs, disks, & devfs References: <6890.964465587@critter.freebsd.dk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > > The BSD disklabel already have a field for disk-name which can be > used for this, what we need is to collect these names as we see them > and provide a "is this disk attached and if so where" function to > look it up. How do you get around fstab entries like this: /dev/acd0c /cdrom cd9660 ro,noauto 0 0 ...without some idea of a positional device entry? -- Jack Rusher, Senior Engineer | mailto:jar@integratus.com Integratus, Inc. | http://www.integratus.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message