[ILUG] SCSI devices

[John P. Looney (Kate)]

On Wed, Jun 14, 2000 at 10:41:21PM +0100, Niall O Broin mentioned:
> Sun did the same when they transitioned from SunOS to Solaris - it was a
> little painful at first, but in time you grow to love it (and the old SunOS
> model, although not as logical as the current model, was at least better than
> Linux in that a given SCSI ID device was always accessed as the same device
> node - if it wasn't present, it wasn't present, but at least its device node
> wasn't usurped by something else, so it would solve your current problem.)

 I would direct you to:
    http://www.RedBrick.dcu.ie/~valen/epic.txt

 One of the more humourous explainations of the trickery involved in Sun's
own manifestation of disks. I have to say, I liked the way on the amiga
you could give devices logical names "Assign Floppy: to FD0:, and Assign
Work: to HD5:". If devfs would let you label partitions and the like, and
then you mount the disk label, sorta like 
    mount /dev/ide/discs/disc0/linux-usr /usr
the world would be a better place...

Kate

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