From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Doug Ledford Subject: Re: /proc/scsi/map Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 12:09:39 -0400 Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20020618120939.D7800@redhat.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: ; from hbryan@us.ibm.com on Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 08:40:36AM -0700 List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Bryan Henderson Cc: Kurt Garloff , Linux SCSI list On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 08:40:36AM -0700, Bryan Henderson wrote: > > >There simply is *no* guarantee here of > >any consistent naming, so don't bother trying to claim there is. > > That's quite an overstatement. With a minor and reasonable qualification, > there is a guarantee. That qualification is that you keep your controller > numbers the same. On the myriad systems that have only one controller, > that is a very reasonable qualification indeed. That's only reasonable for as long as you are going to exclude servers and SAN type storage environements. I would argue that the people that are willing to live with your qualification, could likely live without this whole bit of software because they could just make their ZIP drive be the last one on the chain so no other devices get renumbered at boot up if their ZIP disk is off ;-) -- Doug Ledford 919-754-3700 x44233 Red Hat, Inc. 1801 Varsity Dr. Raleigh, NC 27606