Messages in this thread | | | From | Fred Reimer <> | Subject | Re: Device naming??? | Date | Wed, 21 Jul 1999 11:38:06 -0400 |
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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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