Re: [Possibly OT] Re: /proc/scsi/map

Austin Gonyou
2002-06-18T16:24:34Z

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? :) )

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Austin Gonyou <austin@digitalroadkill.net>