Messages in this thread | | | From | (Matthias Urlichs) | Subject | Re: Volume management on Linux with the ext2fs. | Date | 5 May 1997 22:00:10 +0200 |
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In dist.linux.kernel, article <861916800.24656@noris.de>, Stefan Monnier <monnier+/news/lists/linux/kernel@tequila.cs.yale.edu> writes: > "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@MIT.EDU> writes: > > about this feature. Most of the time you need to powerdown the system > > to cable the new disk into the SCSI chain anyway..... > > Especially with Linux using /dev/sda2 instead of something like > /dev/dsk/dks0t1d0s5 or somesuch.
Especially with Linux not having a HALT key.
Playing with SCSI while the bus is (or might be) active is _dangerous_.
Implementing a static SCSI mapping is left as an exercise for sometime before Linux 2.2 -- or whichever kernel will finally have 32-bit device numbers. The GNU libc already uses them, fortunately.
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