Re: devfs

Michael Neuffer (neuffer@goofy.zdv.Uni-Mainz.de)
Sun, 11 Jan 1998 12:00:53 +0100 (MET)


On Sun, 11 Jan 1998, Richard Gooch wrote:
> > This allows then to stay compatible with their naming sheme but has the
> > drawback of dropping support for LUNs. This only works properly for the
> > special case of the SSAs since you only have disk drives in them.
> >
> > However I do not think that we should make the same mistake as them
> > and cut ourselves off from supporting multi LUN devices.
>
> Agreed! Considering this, I'm open to alternative naming schemes, but
> only if they preserve the information.

The easiest would be to add a field so that it looks like the following:

cCbBtTdDsS

<C> == controller
<B> == bus/channel on controller
<T> == target (ID)
<D> == LUN
<S> == slice/partition

Mike