Re: devfs patch v3

Dave Cinege (dcinege@psychosis.com)
Sun, 11 Jan 98 06:49:04 -0500


On Sun, 11 Jan 1998 20:00:45 +1100, Richard Gooch wrote:

>> I'm _so_ happy to hear this! I love the absolute device ids
>> for SCSI on my Solaris boxes because if a disk in a raid fails, on
>> reboot the devices don't get renumbered like they do until linux.
>
>I agree. The current system of auto-renumbering of SCSI discs is an
>administrative nightmare.

All I have to say is, I though I gave up drive letters when I stopped using
DOS.

Long ago I brought this up and also was looking for a way to access
partitions by their label (which FAT, and ext2 support). This removes the
possibility of partition shift and an unbootable/screwed up system if the
disks get changed.

If it hasen't been brought up I here by throw it into the loop. (I'll start
following this thread from now on)

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