Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 15:01:43 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.demon.nl> To: Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How much do we need the all-singing, all-dancing devfs? Message-ID: <20000728150143.A5518@freebie.demon.nl> In-Reply-To: <20000728123730.C71137@ywing.creative.net.au>; from adrian@freebsd.org on Fri, Jul 28, 2000 at 12:37:30PM %2B0200 References: <20000727094015.B71137@ywing.creative.net.au> <Pine.BSF.4.10.10007271844460.59725-100000@beppo.feral.com> <20000728110827.A3470@freebie.demon.nl> <20000728123730.C71137@ywing.creative.net.au>
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On Fri, Jul 28, 2000 at 12:37:30PM +0200, Adrian Chadd wrote: > On Fri, Jul 28, 2000, Wilko Bulte wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 27, 2000 at 06:47:13PM -0700, Matthew Jacob wrote: > > > The other aspect of this is that these are unique names. This makes High > > > Availability device management a *snap*. It's WWNXXXXX on all systems on the > > > same fabric. > > > > Yep.. and that is what you really want. > > So why not just call make_dev with the wwnXXXXXX as the device name ? > (Assuming that the device nodes exist in /dev, I don't see this as being > a problem even now, and if you wanted to you could make a script to query > the FC controllers in your system and create devices in /dev/ (or /dev/dsk/, > /dev/fc/, whatever you wanted ..) Other than that 64/128 bit WWNs are a royal pain in daily use this should work. -- Wilko Bulte wilko@freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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