Re: devfs
Mitch Adair (mitch@acan.net)
Sun, 11 Jan 1998 11:58:18 -0600 (CST)
>
> 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
>
Yes, *please* use this layout. Those of us who've been dainbramaged by
our exposure to Solaris would really appreciate it, I think. :)
I think devfs is a great idea, good work.
Mitch