From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matt Domsch Subject: Re: [PATCH] minimal SAS transport class Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2005 23:55:02 -0500 Message-ID: <20050822045502.GA7147@lists.us.dell.com> References: <9BB4DECD4CFE6D43AA8EA8D768ED51C21D7A40@xbl3.ma.emulex.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from zeus1.kernel.org ([204.152.191.4]:16268 "EHLO zeus1.kernel.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751306AbVHVWmn (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Aug 2005 18:42:43 -0400 Received: from ausc60ps301.us.dell.com (ausc60ps301.us.dell.com [143.166.148.206]) by zeus1.kernel.org (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j7M4u87R002158 for ; Sun, 21 Aug 2005 21:56:09 -0700 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <9BB4DECD4CFE6D43AA8EA8D768ED51C21D7A40@xbl3.ma.emulex.com> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: James.Smart@Emulex.Com Cc: luben_tuikov@adaptec.com, hch@lst.de, jejb@steeleye.com, ltuikov@yahoo.com, Eric.Moore@lsil.com, andrew.patterson@hp.com, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org 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 -- Matt Domsch Software Architect Dell Linux Solutions linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux Linux on Dell mailing lists @ http://lists.us.dell.com