From owner-freebsd-scsi Sun Sep 6 21:26:11 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA11721 for freebsd-scsi-outgoing; Sun, 6 Sep 1998 21:26:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from word.smith.net.au (castles157.castles.com [208.214.165.157]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA11690 for ; Sun, 6 Sep 1998 21:26:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@word.smith.net.au) Received: from word.smith.net.au (LOCALHOST [127.0.0.1]) by word.smith.net.au (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA11299; Sun, 6 Sep 1998 21:32:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@word.smith.net.au) Message-Id: <199809070432.VAA11299@word.smith.net.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Chris Csanady cc: freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CAM device naming.. In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 06 Sep 1998 22:40:06 CDT." <199809070340.WAA12543@friley-185-114.res.iastate.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 06 Sep 1998 21:32:17 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > As the device naming is different in CAM anyways, would there be any > possibility of taking it one step further? I have found it to be > quite nice in other OS's that actually use subdirectories for disk > names, terminals, etc. It makes /dev a much cleaner place imho. You can organise them any way you like; make the directories, name them all "easter_bunny_X", whatever. > Also, I would love for the names to actually be based upon the > scsi controller, id, lun, partition etc.. although, I suppose there > is no way in hell this will happen. :P It sucks when a disk goes > away, and then every last entry in your fstab is incorrect though. Wire your disks down, like everyone else does. We could do with a 'soft' mount keyword in /etc/fstab though. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message