From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 5 11:56:06 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9027C16A46C for ; Fri, 5 Oct 2007 11:56:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tevans.uk@googlemail.com) Received: from rv-out-0910.google.com (rv-out-0910.google.com [209.85.198.191]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 334F213C45A for ; Fri, 5 Oct 2007 11:56:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tevans.uk@googlemail.com) Received: by rv-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id l15so75702rvb for ; Fri, 05 Oct 2007 04:56:05 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:subject:from:to:cc:in-reply-to:references:content-type:date:message-id:mime-version:x-mailer; bh=S2uIAGu93VwRfiR2L6klLVo5SEg5P0kHnvoP+teIn+c=; b=kzfXkxsSUHOmbffuqA5Bu+Amm6rQogVSZIeGaRsZdwW5QtkBC9IOfFNeHI6wQv1MpwbgvHS0ncUq7TfcNUOlDx3RjRvV/4FC347dgCbzGsNXpmPR9nmSSrwAOJ6zvzhhY6A1G9//ObPfwCKt8kWf13kcctS+sbWtTKslxw0Xb20= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=beta; h=received:subject:from:to:cc:in-reply-to:references:content-type:date:message-id:mime-version:x-mailer; b=YizT0ED/IqMzugWbb42mhz5MYaAQ3Rclm1TJ31TmycHJOsi5D1bCzwfCrlTdFb2etXs94HgG6qCeMmkGxCvOqdS55cjptSnKBWS/jVSZ1PqwQfUpDwJCKTir10CTvlelVTuPjMz3gODORxD/zisGWuKFJhdUnWKMdW66fMT/85U= Received: by 10.141.205.10 with SMTP id h10mr1581248rvq.1191584944650; Fri, 05 Oct 2007 04:49:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?127.0.0.1? ( [217.206.187.79]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id i7sm5164855nfh.2007.10.05.04.49.03 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Fri, 05 Oct 2007 04:49:03 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom Evans To: Sharad Chandra In-Reply-To: <1191584622.1475.86.camel@localhost> References: <200710041725.00842.sharadc@in.niksun.com> <4704E8F1.8070000@freebsd.org> <200710051646.17618.sharadc@in.niksun.com> <1191584622.1475.86.camel@localhost> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-GPoRonUycik2iQgtCRqs" Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2007 12:49:02 +0100 Message-Id: <1191584942.1475.92.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.10.2 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SCSI and SAN 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: Fri, 05 Oct 2007 11:56:06 -0000 --=-GPoRonUycik2iQgtCRqs Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, 2007-10-05 at 12:43 +0100, Tom Evans wrote: .... Excuse the formatting, my keyboard went nuts and decided I was done editing :o In addition to the example I showed, I was just going to say that the purpose of glabel is to stop referring to /dev/da[0-9]* and instead be able to refer to /dev/label/san_0_lun_0 (or whatever you like). I don't know of a way to automagically determine if a disk is in fact a SAN, but it cannot be too hard to figure out from dmesg + information about the disk.=20 Once you have identified it LABEL IT! Then there is no more ambiguity. Regards Tom --=-GPoRonUycik2iQgtCRqs Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBHBiSulcRvFfyds/cRAuzfAKCsNQ8E4MW9+c0a69dlui+keL5C2QCgnJgL vb2FrheeX1O0zS56YMkSOI8= =u5YU -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-GPoRonUycik2iQgtCRqs--