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Date:      Sun, 06 Sep 1998 21:32:17 -0700
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        Chris Csanady <ccsanady@friley-185-114.res.iastate.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: CAM device naming.. 
Message-ID:  <199809070432.VAA11299@word.smith.net.au>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 06 Sep 1998 22:40:06 CDT." <199809070340.WAA12543@friley-185-114.res.iastate.edu> 

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> 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.

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