On Jan 11, 2008 3:44 PM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Arthur Pemberton wrote: > > On Jan 11, 2008 2:30 PM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> It doesn't seem as sensible as being able to plug into a known > >> controller position and get a known device name, particularly in the > >> scenario where the drives aren't hot-plug and you want to access a bunch > >> of new ones after a reboot and know which is which. > > > > > > Frankly i like this idea, but I'm unsure of the practicality of it: > > > > What is the highest level which is even aware of the physical location > > of said device? I would imagine the BIOS knows, and maybe some really > > low level kernel modules but anything above that? > > The bios doesn't necessarily know anything except for the one(s) that it > might boot. But I think there may be some extra magic in what the > kernel does with the names depending on which drive bios used to boot. > The stuff in /dev/disk/by-path might be useful for the versions that > have it, but I can't see anything for the empty controller positions > where the drives aren't connected so the arrangement doesn't make a lot > of sense. Then it seems to me that what you/i/we want can be accomplished with soem clever udev rules. -- Fedora 7 : sipping some of that moonshine ( www.pembo13.com ) -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
