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. -- \\ 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
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