Re: devfs - why not ?

[Richard Gooch]

Kelsey Hudson writes:
> > Whats this c0t0d0s3. Thats woefully inadequate to describe a volume that
> > is on a kernel managed multichanger on a fibrechannel fabric 8)
> 
> That's solaris' way of definig a device:
>  
> controller 0
> target 0
> device 0
> slice 3
> 
> i do agree with mr. cox here though; it is very inadequate. Something
> along the lines of 
> 
> /dev/bus/scsi0/id0/lun0/slice3
> 
> would be much more descriptive, and organized in a much simpler way,
> IMO.

Hm. My (devfs) box looks like this:
% df
Filesystem         1024-blocks  Used Available Capacity Mounted on
/dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/part2
                     1034712  347121   677069     34%   /
/dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/part1
                       47760    1808    43544      4%   /var
/dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/part5
                      103519      83    98217      0%   /tmp
/dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/part7
                      583091  233048   344019     40%   /home

				Regards,

					Richard....
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