Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 22:00:05 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: mjacob@feral.com Cc: freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How much do we need the all-singing, all-dancing devfs? Message-ID: <13949.964555205@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 25 Jul 2000 12:51:01 PDT." <Pine.BSF.4.10.10007251246140.56819-100000@beppo.feral.com>
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In message <Pine.BSF.4.10.10007251246140.56819-100000@beppo.feral.com>, Matthew Jacob writes: > >> In my mind it would make more sense to make an API to examine the >> disklabels (of various sorts) and pick the "FreeBSD device identifier" >> from there. >> >> That way all devices, SCSI, ATA, IDE, RAID, Flash and so on can be >> handled. > >For devices that have been so labelled, yes, and that the label in question >can be written to the device media (or stored in the device). This means that >you have an import step. Not the worst thing in the world, but it does indeed >restrict usage and sharing on a SAN- you can't rewrite the 50 NT volume labels >on the SAN to find a FreeBSD identifier. Ahh, but if they are NT volumes, the are unlikely to be UFS filesystems, and in that case I'm sure we would simply adopt the NT labels, no ? Maybe the solution here is that each device and indeed partition can have multiple labels, and any one of those are good enough for /etc/fstab ? -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD coreteam member | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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