From owner-freebsd-arch Fri Jul 28 6: 5: 3 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 2BE8937C1EE; Fri, 28 Jul 2000 06:04:52 -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 13I9op-0007Ws-00; Fri, 28 Jul 2000 13:04:51 +0000 Received: (from wkb@localhost) by freebie.demon.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3) id PAA05534; Fri, 28 Jul 2000 15:01:43 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wkb) Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 15:01:43 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte To: Adrian Chadd Cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How much do we need the all-singing, all-dancing devfs? Message-ID: <20000728150143.A5518@freebie.demon.nl> Reply-To: wilko@freebsd.org References: <20000727094015.B71137@ywing.creative.net.au> <20000728110827.A3470@freebie.demon.nl> <20000728123730.C71137@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: <20000728123730.C71137@ywing.creative.net.au>; from adrian@freebsd.org on Fri, Jul 28, 2000 at 12:37:30PM +0200 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 Fri, Jul 28, 2000 at 12:37:30PM +0200, Adrian Chadd wrote: > On Fri, Jul 28, 2000, Wilko Bulte wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 27, 2000 at 06:47:13PM -0700, Matthew Jacob wrote: > > > 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. > > So why not just call make_dev with the wwnXXXXXX as the device name ? > (Assuming that the device nodes exist in /dev, I don't see this as being > a problem even now, and if you wanted to you could make a script to query > the FC controllers in your system and create devices in /dev/ (or /dev/dsk/, > /dev/fc/, whatever you wanted ..) Other than that 64/128 bit WWNs are a royal pain in daily use this should work. -- Wilko Bulte wilko@freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message