Re: [PATCH] minimal SAS transport class

[Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>]

On Sat, Aug 20, 2005 at 12:15:41AM -0400, James.Smart@Emulex.Com wrote:
> - There are some real challenges in supporting a udev-named boot
>   device. For the most part, it's a distro issue, which is becoming
>   better. PS: for $10, name a 2.6 distro that uses udev out
>   of the box for disk names and its installation. For $10 more, 
>   can it install/boot from one?

I won't get your $10, but RHEL4 has a mechanism to specify "install
onto BIOS disk N", where N is typically 80h (it's an int13 number,
what BIOS typically boots from).  EDD in anaconda handles the mapping
of BIOS disk number to /dev/whatever.  And a few folks at Dell are
working on a udev helper to let udev know this mapping too, and
incorporating the same capability into SLES in the future.

After install, file system labels have been working great for years.
root=LABEL=/  syntax for example, and you can get as complex as you
like with that label.

Thanks,
Matt

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Matt Domsch
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