Re: kernel-managed /dev, revisited

Teunis Peters (teunis@usa.net)
Mon, 14 Jul 1997 11:08:08 -0600 (MDT)


On Sun, 13 Jul 1997, Harald Milz wrote:

> Teunis Peters (teunis@usa.net) wrote:
> >
> > Now that I think about it though, I toss in a vote for:
> > s<?><id><lun>
> > on naming though (eg tape on ID 4 lun 0 == st40 or the like)
>
> Err - this limits you to 9 LUNs per SCSI ID. Please don't do it... SSA will
> allow many, many disks per (virtual mapped) SCSI ID and would definitely
> not profit from it!
>
> It's easier to unambiguously parse something like
> s<host>i<target id>l<lun>

GLEAH!!! I NEVER THOUGHT ABOUT THAT!!
(dang - too used to SCSI-1 and SCSI-2 and single SCSI host adapters...)

Okay. I like it.

(call me uninformed but what's SSA? [private email :])

Wind to your wings!
- Teunis