Date: Sun, 3 Oct 1999 10:40:24 -0600 (MDT) From: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@narnia.plutotech.com> To: jin@george.lbl.gov Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: SCSI disk naming problem Message-ID: <199910031640.KAA21687@narnia.plutotech.com> In-Reply-To: <199910011710.KAA18313@george.lbl.gov>
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In article <199910011710.KAA18313@george.lbl.gov> you wrote: > Current FreeBSD SCSi disk naming mechanism is problem for using more than > one disks in the chain during the disk failure. > > The problem is that the name is not fixed with is SCSI ID. e.g., > if one disk is presented in the chain, regardless its SCSI ID, it is > always named "da0"; ... > Is there problem with fixed disk naming mechanism? 'Path based names' do not deal with systems that have multiple paths to the same device. For example, if I have two host adapters talking on the same bus for redundancy, which name to I give to the devices on the bus? -- Justin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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