From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Austin Gonyou Subject: Re: [Possibly OT] Re: /proc/scsi/map Date: 18 Jun 2002 11:24:34 -0500 Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <1024417474.7690.46.camel@UberGeek> References: <1024416395.7685.36.camel@UberGeek> <20020618120810.C7800@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20020618120810.C7800@redhat.com> List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Doug Ledford Cc: Bryan Henderson , Kurt Garloff , Linux SCSI list On Tue, 2002-06-18 at 11:08, Doug Ledford wrote: > On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 11:06:35AM -0500, Austin Gonyou wrote: > > > > > > On Tue, 2002-06-18 at 10:49, Bryan Henderson wrote: > > .... > > > But we do have look out for other cases. Like non-storage devices. > > > > > > > I'm not sure what you mean here? > > He's talking about the fact that you can put a volume label on a disk > drive, but it's hard to do the same to a tape drive or maybe a SCSI > DVD-RAM drive or anything else where you can't write to a permanent part > of the device instead of a removeable part of the device. Ahh...off-line storage devices. Kind of hard to write a label to a non-storage device. (/dev/null is a non-storage device right? :) ) -- Austin Gonyou