-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 2/3/2014 4:15 PM, Kay Sievers wrote: > got through quite a few changes over the years. Not sure how much the > /dev/tape/by-*/ links are really used in the field, and what people really > expect here. I'm not sure they actually work that much either (random opensuse 12.3 machine). lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Feb 3 15:31 /dev/tape/by-id/scsi-3201034d7b4000007 - -> ../../st3 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Feb 3 15:31 /dev/tape/by-id/scsi-3201034d7b4000007-nst -> ../../nst1 That is what shows up on my machine with 4 tape drives /dev/st0->st4. Its because there are 4 devices with the same I_T and different luns. The /dev/st* and /dev/nst* are correct. > Sure, but do they really expect the additional symlinks udev creates? We > are not talking about the primary device nodes, only about the additional > /dev/tape/by-*/ links. Oh... I suspect your right. If anyone is using it is probably one off scripts. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJS8BeoAAoJEL5i86xrzcy7wBkH/jn9wewZIU7DrVRLc0OiHTDh Cm7Fo4wir01i8t29P+qL3EgsMzoe7w3xfCJ74rRks5UO5Vl13NmI0ck3rJ+ElTf7 9MJl40cgQgYB+ATCMy91mcObr6KTwkRI1n1oZZKV8YAd20mGSDIEv9FeqHGEWOC4 c3THh+6C0Fb63cYQ6X3oyK8twHNJl8HAJPRbnZ0oKdvSFdoAGBXoBxQ7mbsaWBcI HkTF6ArHdIMGMeI4F1PUROKMsSeEhwzudvJY3+fb7pQO3pmG6aFTCTVlkSZiDVNX uqhbB9cdz6c0GYHVg/3jCEsmdzMmlT/qY0jy6NChBPgdFpsS1CAfbnYW2eKtpS4= =ANj0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- 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