Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 09:32:40 -0600 (MDT) From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> To: phk@phk.freebsd.dk Cc: gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu, pjd@freebsd.org, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Accessing disks via their serial numbers. Message-ID: <20060626.093240.-432837692.imp@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <33398.1151304697@critter.freebsd.dk> References: <20060626031636.GK82074@funkthat.com> <33398.1151304697@critter.freebsd.dk>
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"Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> writes:
: I suspect that the proponents of this scheme will object to my proposal
: because they can not do a "ls /dev/mumble/*" to get a list of disk
: serial numbers, and if so, that dooms the proposal: If the only objective
: is to get a list of serial numbers, then this is not how it should be
: done, instead we should add a real VPD registry to the kernel.
I'm curious... what's wrong with adding additional things to the /dev
directory? One of the biggest annoyances I have in troubleshooting is
not being able to see what files are there and having magic file names
that one can open but not list.
Warner
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