From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Apr 9 02:34:13 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: hackers@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2078616A400 for ; Sun, 9 Apr 2006 02:34:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mwm-keyword-freebsdhackers.102a7e@mired.org) Received: from mired.org (dsl092-153-074.wdc2.dsl.speakeasy.net [66.92.153.74]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 709E843D45 for ; Sun, 9 Apr 2006 02:34:12 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mwm-keyword-freebsdhackers.102a7e@mired.org) Received: (qmail 73574 invoked by uid 1001); 9 Apr 2006 02:34:11 -0000 Received: by localhost.mired.org (tmda-sendmail, from uid 1001); Sat, 08 Apr 2006 22:34:11 -0400 (EDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <17464.29347.529203.354768@bhuda.mired.org> Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2006 22:34:11 -0400 To: Daniel Rock In-Reply-To: <4438630E.4090300@deadcafe.de> References: <20060407225742.GA21619@odin.ac.hmc.edu> <20060407230247.GH16344@submonkey.net> <4437C9F6.5000008@samsco.org> <20060408233740.GA84768@submonkey.net> <44384A55.2010103@samsco.org> <4438630E.4090300@deadcafe.de> X-Mailer: VM 7.17 under 21.4 (patch 19) "Constant Variable" XEmacs Lucid X-Primary-Address: mwm@mired.org X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`; h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/1.0.3 (Seattle Slew) From: Mike Meyer Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Using any network interface whatsoever X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 09 Apr 2006 02:34:13 -0000 In <4438630E.4090300@deadcafe.de>, Daniel Rock typed: > So I doubt that the overwriting of an Ingres database really > happened in Solaris, like some other poster described - unless the > administrator fiddled with /etc/path_to_inst by hand (you are free > to shoot in your own foot). That happened very early in the life of Solaris, in the early 90s. Persistent numbering was added to Solaris in response to this incident (there were probably others as well). This was on a relatively large server, with something like 4 SCSI buses. A drive was added to a previously unused bus, making it appear "between" two drives that were already in the system. This gave all the drives further on in the probe sequence a device number one higher than they had previously had. http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent Network/Unix/Perforce consultant, email for more information.