From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 00:32:53 +0200 From: Lars Marowsky-Bree To: Philipp Reisner , drbd-dev@lists.linbit.com Subject: Re: [Drbd-dev] Re: [john.cagle@hp.com: FW: device number request for drbd] Message-ID: <20040729223253.GD3794@marowsky-bree.de> References: <20040728080645.GB7918@tmathiasen> <200407281655.18277.philipp.reisner@linbit.com> <20040728153314.GW26564@marowsky-bree.de> <200407281956.10022.philipp.reisner@linbit.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <200407281956.10022.philipp.reisner@linbit.com> Sender: drbd-dev-admin@lists.linbit.com Errors-To: drbd-dev-admin@lists.linbit.com List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Coordination of development List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: On 2004-07-28T19:56:09, Philipp Reisner said: > > This is _not_ a change we can push out. The major number _might_ be > > changed, but the device path absolutely has to stay stable. > > Maybe > for ((i=0;i<16;i++)); do mknod /dev/nb$i b 147 $i; done No. Because the user might have the RPM installed (thus the post-install would get triggered on update), but may in fact be using nbd. We'll have to make the drbd we ship default to the old major/minor and also keep the examples consistent with that. However, we can advise them use the different major in the future, but for a GA'ed product, we cannot break what is essentially the ABI to userspace. Sincerely, Lars Marowsky-Brée -- High Availability & Clustering \ ever tried. ever failed. no matter. SUSE Labs, Research and Development | try again. fail again. fail better. SUSE LINUX AG - A Novell company \ -- Samuel Beckett