Re: disk naming proposal & devfs (fwd)

Perry Harrington (pedward@sun4.apsoft.com)
Mon, 12 Jan 1998 22:30:19 -0800 (PST)

Greetings, I am new to (this) list. I have quite a bit of experience with
Solaris, and I must say that duplicating the Solaris naming scheme to access
SCSI disks/devices is a Good Thing(tm). Getting commercial software vendors
to support Linux is difficult already, creating some non-standard obscure
naming scheme is a step in the wrong direction. It is conceivable that we
could get some commercial vendor (Veritas???) to support Linux when logical
vols are up to snuff, and this would make them happy. I personally think
that the Controller,Target,device?,slice model seems kindof silly, but Solaris
has a market share that's the envy of Linux.

My $0.02.

--Perry

>
>
> okay. I don't want to have to visually or write a script to grok
> output that can look like
>
> /dev/c0t0d0s0
>
> or
>
> /dev/c0t0s0
>
> or something else just because it's not supported in *your* hardware. I have to
> administer a LOT of machines and consequently the simpler my life is the better
> it is. I don't particularly care about it "looking pretty" as your suggestion
> would make it, I am primarily interested in having a COMMON naming scheme
> ranging from the oldest and slowest SCSI-I drives to the latest and greatest
> Ultra Wide SCSIs for instance.. the same go other devices too. define ONE
> naming scheme and stick to it.
>
> --Jauder
> 

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