From owner-freebsd-arch Fri Jul 28 3: 9:46 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-11.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 656BE37B9D6; Fri, 28 Jul 2000 03:09:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wkb@freebie.demon.nl) Received: from [212.238.54.101] (helo=freebie.demon.nl) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with smtp (Exim 3.14 #4) id 13I75D-0003Vh-00; Fri, 28 Jul 2000 10:09:35 +0000 Received: (from wkb@localhost) by freebie.demon.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA03507; Fri, 28 Jul 2000 11:08:27 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wkb) Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 11:08:27 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte To: Matthew Jacob Cc: Adrian Chadd , freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How much do we need the all-singing, all-dancing devfs? Message-ID: <20000728110827.A3470@freebie.demon.nl> Reply-To: wilko@freebsd.org References: <20000727094015.B71137@ywing.creative.net.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: ; from mjacob@feral.com on Thu, Jul 27, 2000 at 06:47:13PM -0700 X-OS: FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE X-PGP: finger wilko@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Jul 27, 2000 at 06:47:13PM -0700, Matthew Jacob wrote: > > > Matt - if I understand your initial idea right, all you wanted was a way > > to map a fibrechannel disk label to a name in a devfs, so that when the > > underlying device shifted 'address', you would still be able to reference > > it without difficulty? Was there anything else ? > > No- I want to map a *device*- I don't *particularly* care what it's name is > (the thing put in /etc/fstab or handed to 'mt')- but I do not necessarily want > to have to write to it (for a label) to address it. I can guarantee that the After all this is not NT ('it is harmless to write a signature'). > address won't shift while the system is running. Can you? Assuming a LIP on a FC-AL that is setup for soft addressing and where devices come/go. > The other aspect of this is that these are unique names. This makes High > Availability device management a *snap*. It's WWNXXXXX on all systems on the > same fabric. Yep.. and that is what you really want. -- Wilko Bulte wilko@freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message