Re: devfs - why not ?

From: Dr. Kelsey Hudson (kernel@blackhole.compendium-tech.com)
Date: Thu Apr 13 2000 - 19:05:15 EST


> Whats this c0t0d0s3. Thats woefully inadequate to describe a volume that
> is on a kernel managed multichanger on a fibrechannel fabric 8)

That's solaris' way of definig a device:
 
controller 0
target 0
device 0
slice 3

i do agree with mr. cox here though; it is very inadequate. Something
along the lines of

/dev/bus/scsi0/id0/lun0/slice3

would be much more descriptive, and organized in a much simpler way, IMO.

 Kelsey Hudson khudson@ctica.com
 Software Engineer
 Compendium Technologies, Inc (619) 725-0771
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