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Date:      Sun, 03 Oct 1999 09:48:42 -0700
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@narnia.plutotech.com>
Cc:        jin@george.lbl.gov, hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: SCSI disk naming problem 
Message-ID:  <199910031648.JAA06411@dingo.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 03 Oct 1999 10:40:24 MDT." <199910031640.KAA21687@narnia.plutotech.com> 

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> > Is there problem with fixed disk naming mechanism?
> 
> 'Path based names' do not deal with systems that have multiple
> paths to the same device.  For example, if I have two host adapters
> talking on the same bus for redundancy, which name to I give to the
> devices on the bus?

That depends on how you're handling the redundancy; either you do it 
inside the kernel in which case the resulting device has a virtual 
path, or you do it outside in which case you have two paths which point 
to the same device.

-- 
\\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\  Mike Smith
\\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself,  \\  msmith@freebsd.org
\\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime.             \\  msmith@cdrom.com




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