I quickly read through the paper, and came up with a question.
Talking about persistence -- what about scsi device that dynamically
change their target id's (i.e. fiber channel). How do we make sure that
we continue to refernce disk1 as disk1. With a possible 16 million
devices this could get hairy.
If we are wanting to have multi-pathed access to a drive it would be nice
to have that reflected in the dev tree, but it would also be nice to
easily refer to a unique drive, via WWN. By using the World Wide Number
we can make sure that we know exactly which drive we are refering to.
(I have to run -- maybe more later)
Rodger Wilson
Target and SCSI Drivers (Sun Microsystems, Inc.)
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On Thu, 27 Apr 2000, Richard Gooch wrote:
> Rodger Wilson writes:
> > Has anyone writting a document as to how devfs is going to be
> > persistent accross reboots and what the devfs naming conventions are
> > going to be?
>
> YES! Have you missed all the announcements?!?
> http://www.atnf.csiro.au/~rgooch/linux/docs/devfs.html
>
> > Also will linux then uses a dev directory containing friendly names
> > that are symbolically linked to the real devices?
>
> YES! Read the docs.
>
> Regards,
>
> Richard....
> Permanent: rgooch@atnf.csiro.au
> Current: rgooch@ras.ucalgary.ca
>
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