Date: Sat, 2 Oct 1999 18:03:14 +0300 (EEST) From: Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee> To: "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@CA.Sandia.GOV> Cc: jin@george.lbl.gov, bmah@california.sandia.gov, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SCSI disk naming problem Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.991002174646.34993A-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee> In-Reply-To: <199910012033.NAA81193@nimitz.ca.sandia.gov>
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On Fri, 1 Oct 1999, Bruce A. Mah wrote: > If memory serves me right, jin@george.lbl.gov wrote: > > > > This one does not resolve the controller problem either as > > narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee said. > > > > So, I guess dac0t0, dac0t1, ... dac3t4, will be good enough if we want > > to be short, but anything shorter than this will be meaningless. > > Well...I personally prefer the short names. On systems with multiple > controllers, the commercial UNIX I used (Ultrix) just continued its > numbering with rz0, rz1, rz2, ..., rz6, rz7, rz8, ... FreeBSD lets you > do exactly the same thing. > > Having long device names is confusing to users who only have one disk > controller (and I'd bet this is the vast majority). It took me a long The vast majority has just one disk. Given the fast growth in disk sizes, that majority will not decrease. > time to grok the syntax of Solaris device names and I still get confused > about this. Commercial or free doesn't have anything to do with this > issue...this scheme would force users to remember and type extra > characters that many of them don't need. (/dev/da0s1a is long enough, > but /dev/dac0t0d0s1a is a little ridiculous for someone that has only > one controller and one drive.) > If you want to *SOLVE* the problem, then make the disk wiring happen before the kernel is booted. After all, we have a real cute boot loader that can definately load the /boot/disk.wire file 8-) The problem after all is *NOT* one of names but that disks not change names unless the administrator wishes so. It doesn't matter the least how we call them. [snip] > Cheers, > > Bruce. > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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