On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 01:32:10PM -0400, Douglas Gilbert wrote: > As James' notes each storage device can only have one > "preferred name" at a time. But how can that preferred name > be represented in sysfs ? If /sys/block/<kernel_name> > suddenly changed to /sys/block/<preferred_name> that would > be very disruptive. I would prefer something like > /sys/class/block_preferred_name/<preferred_name> was introduced > as a symlink to /sys/block/<kernel_name> but that would require > that all <preferred_name>s were unique. [Not a bad restriction > IMO]. If the <preferred_name> was only placed in the > /sys/block/<kernel_name> directory that would be ugly from > the user space tool point of view. Oh, rapture... so now we can expect the container crowd to introduce yet *another* "namespace" ;-/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
