Re: UUIDs (and devfs and major/minor numbers)
Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH (allbery@kf8nh.apk.net)
Sun, 20 Jun 1999 20:38:00 -0400
In message <19990620115838.B7018@chelm.cs.nmt.edu>, yodaiken@chelm.cs.nmt.edu w
rites:
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| On Sun, Jun 20, 1999 at 08:40:44AM -0400, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote:
| > SCSI (and IDE?) devices get named in the order they're detected, without
| > regard for their physical addresses. So if you have disks on scsi0 id0 lun
| 0
| > and scsi0 id4 lun0 they get named /dev/sda and /dev/sdb; if you add a disk
| on
| > scsi0 id2, it becomes /dev/sdb and the old sdb is suddenly /dev/sdc.
|
| So where do you want the authoritative name to come from? The disk? A
| database?
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devfs uses the hardware address, which works for me...
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carnegie mellon / electrical and computer engineering KF8NH
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