From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Oct 3 9:56:41 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (castles556.castles.com [208.214.165.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB2E0153F0 for ; Sun, 3 Oct 1999 09:56:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA06411; Sun, 3 Oct 1999 09:48:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199910031648.JAA06411@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: "Justin T. Gibbs" Cc: jin@george.lbl.gov, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: SCSI disk naming problem In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 03 Oct 1999 10:40:24 MDT." <199910031640.KAA21687@narnia.plutotech.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 03 Oct 1999 09:48:42 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > 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? That depends on how you're handling the redundancy; either you do it inside the kernel in which case the resulting device has a virtual path, or you do it outside in which case you have two paths which point to the same device. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message