From owner-freebsd-scsi Mon Sep 7 07:17:01 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA07280 for freebsd-scsi-outgoing; Mon, 7 Sep 1998 07:17:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from friley-185-114.res.iastate.edu (friley-185-114.res.iastate.edu [129.186.185.114]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA07273 for ; Mon, 7 Sep 1998 07:16:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ccsanady@friley-185-114.res.iastate.edu) Received: from friley-185-114.res.iastate.edu (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by friley-185-114.res.iastate.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id JAA06605; Mon, 7 Sep 1998 09:16:51 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from ccsanady@friley-185-114.res.iastate.edu) Message-Id: <199809071416.JAA06605@friley-185-114.res.iastate.edu> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: mjacob@feral.com cc: freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CAM device naming.. In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 06 Sep 1998 20:51:26 PDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 07 Sep 1998 09:16:50 -0500 From: Chris Csanady Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > >On Sun, 6 Sep 1998, Chris Csanady wrote: > >> 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. >> >> 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. > >In a multipathing environment this is not right. It has no meaning >on fibre fabrics. I'm sorry, but I don't follow here. I was under the impression that the cam layer was intended for scsi.. >I really strongly suggest that leaving the names the way they >are right now is fine until a suitable volume binder exists. The thing I don't like about the current scheme is that a particular device name, in no way corresponds to a particular device. Chris To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message