Re: devfs - why not ?

From: Richard Gooch (rgooch@ras.ucalgary.ca)
Date: Thu Apr 13 2000 - 22:34:26 EST


Kelsey Hudson writes:
> > 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.

Hm. My (devfs) box looks like this:
% df
Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on
/dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/part2
                     1034712 347121 677069 34% /
/dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/part1
                       47760 1808 43544 4% /var
/dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/part5
                      103519 83 98217 0% /tmp
/dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/part7
                      583091 233048 344019 40% /home

                                Regards,

                                        Richard....
Permanent: rgooch@atnf.csiro.au
Current: rgooch@ras.ucalgary.ca

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