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SubjectRe: Volume management on Linux with the ext2fs.
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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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