From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Oct 3 9:50:54 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from narnia.plutotech.com (narnia.plutotech.com [206.168.67.130]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4AAD214EA3 for ; Sun, 3 Oct 1999 09:50:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gibbs@narnia.plutotech.com) Received: (from gibbs@localhost) by narnia.plutotech.com (8.9.3/8.7.3) id KAA21687; Sun, 3 Oct 1999 10:40:24 -0600 (MDT) Date: Sun, 3 Oct 1999 10:40:24 -0600 (MDT) From: "Justin T. Gibbs" Message-Id: <199910031640.KAA21687@narnia.plutotech.com> To: jin@george.lbl.gov Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: SCSI disk naming problem X-Newsgroups: pluto.freebsd.hackers In-Reply-To: <199910011710.KAA18313@george.lbl.gov> User-Agent: tin/pre-1.4-980818 ("Laura") (UNIX) (FreeBSD/4.0-CURRENT (i386)) Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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