On Thu, 2011-06-16 at 13:32 -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. Right, so the only proposal for sysfs is the addition of the preferred_name file to devices, nothing more. The entire sysfs tree structure would be left intact. This is what gets us out of the problems that a real rename causes. James -- 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
