> Thus, you can identify the disk, or a partition on the disk,
> by contents rather than hardware access path.
>
> Some people like that, they can have it.
The problem I raised is when the hardware path is not well defined (eg on
a SAN, where disk addresses may change). For the hardware path to be well
defined we _need_ the concept of a WWN to be visible.
This is the concept I would like to see, and is why I consider putting a
raid0 header "inellegant".
Hmm... this is probably an orthoganal problem to devfs, so the subject line
is out of date :-) We need an addressing scheme that can handle changable
devices. devfs may give us a solution to this...
Stephen Harris
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