From owner-cvs-all Thu Oct 24 13:32:21 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF29C37B401; Thu, 24 Oct 2002 13:32:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.86.163]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F338043E42; Thu, 24 Oct 2002 13:32:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id g9OKUGrF004579; Thu, 24 Oct 2002 22:30:17 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: Bakul Shah Cc: Takahashi Yoshihiro , bde@zeta.org.au, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libdisk Makefile chunk.c write_alpha_disk.c write_i386_disk.c write_pc98_disk.c In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 24 Oct 2002 13:20:55 PDT." <200210242020.QAA29385@valiant.cnchost.com> Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 22:30:16 +0200 Message-ID: <4578.1035491416@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <200210242020.QAA29385@valiant.cnchost.com>, Bakul Shah writes: > /// > >or some such syntax to select what to boot. For example, > > wd/0/a/kernel > >instead of wd(0,a)/kernel. Made perfect sense to me: if you >have a name-space you name else you index what comes next and >recurse. Makes even more sense so when you can have a >stackable disk sub-system. Now, this is the first novel proposal I see on this issue, and that allows me to say that I'm entirely for a revamp of the way we name our disks. My pet peeve right now is that scsi disks seems to have rather inconstant names, in particular if somebody plays havoc with a SAN configuration. Anyone who can come up with a coherent proposal which uniquely logically, unambigously and sensibly names disk devices _and_ get concensus for his proposal will have my support. Please remember that the proposal should be cross architecture. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message