From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Apr 19 11:34:00 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id LAA25657 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 19 Apr 1995 11:34:00 -0700 Received: from netcom19.netcom.com (bakul@netcom19.netcom.com [192.100.81.132]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id LAA25651 for ; Wed, 19 Apr 1995 11:33:59 -0700 Received: from localhost by netcom19.netcom.com (8.6.12/Netcom) id LAA26076; Wed, 19 Apr 1995 11:33:42 -0700 Message-Id: <199504191833.LAA26076@netcom19.netcom.com> To: hackers@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: [DEVFS] your opinions sought! Date: Wed, 19 Apr 95 11:33:42 -0700 From: Bakul Shah Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I like the scheme but I have a few questions: What does a /dev/disk/ relate to for removable media? The drive or disk? If I have two ZIP drives (which have removable disks) and swap the disks will I end up writing to the wrong disk? What happens if a non-removable disk appears at a different SCSI address? What would one configure the kernel? Swap on /dev/sd0b or swap on /dev/? The former refers to a specific disk partition on a drive attached to a specific scsi address, the latter says I don't care where that disk is but if you find it, use it for swapping. Similar question for disk mirroring in software.