Re: Device naming???
Fred Reimer (fwr@ga.prestige.net)
Wed, 21 Jul 1999 11:38:06 -0400
On Wed, 21 Jul 1999, Nomad the Wanderer wrote:
> ok,
> /dev/sda, etc is nice and handy, but in the event of a disk not
> spinning up right, you can really get hosed. If you loose a disk
> that's needed and it mounts another in it's place (since names are
> asigned to the device each boot) it can really trash some important
> files.
>
> How hard/bad would it be to make SUN style naming such as
> /dev/c0t1d0s0 and such work for /etc/fstab, lilo and such? This could
> make life easier and also safer. If you loose a scratch disk, it might
> not mount your backup disk over it and have a cron-job clean your
> backup files out for scratch space...
>
> Robert
I >think< this is already done. IIRC, the patch or program creates a
/devices directory. Try doing a search.
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