On Sun, 2011-10-16 at 20:15 -0500, Chris Adams wrote: > The problem with enumerating devices by HBA/bus/ID/LUN is that today's > storage is more dynamic. USB ports are "SCSI" (protocol); how do you > number those? IIRC USB ports on a hub are not deterministically > ordered, so a flash card reader on a hub may come before a thumb drive > on one boot and after on the next. I would have gone down the route of calling USB devices with a usb device name. So a USB device doesn't become sda and shuffle device names around for *other* devices. And I would have left IDE style devices as hd, SCSI as sd, SATA as sa, and so on, and so forth... That way when I have a computer with an internal IDE drive, an external USB, and an external SATA, I could tell them instantly apart from each other as they would be /dev/hda, /dev/usb1, /dev/sa1. Rather than /dev/sda, /dev/sdb, and /dev/sdc, where I could guess that the internal drive was *probably* /dev/sda, but could never guess what either of the other two were. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
