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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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