Re: IDE/ATAPI in 2.5

On Mon, 15 Jul 2002, Joerg Schilling wrote:

> Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 11:20:45 +0200 (CEST)
> From: Joerg Schilling <[e-mail]>
> To: [e-mail], [e-mail]
> Cc: [e-mail], [e-mail],
>      [e-mail], [e-mail]
> Subject: Re: IDE/ATAPI in 2.5
>
> >From [e-mail] Mon Jul 15 11:11:59 2002
> >On Sun, 14 Jul 2002, Rik van Riel wrote:
>
> >> > BTW: did you ever look at Solaris / HP-UX, ... and the way they
> >> > name disks?
> >> >
> >> > someting like: /dev/{r}dsk/c0t0d0s0
> >> > This is SCSI bus, target, lun and slice.
> >>
> >> I wonder what they'll change it to in order to support
> >> network attached storage.
> >>
> >Actually notthing:
>
> >dbtecnocasa:{root}:/>format
> >Searching for disks...done
>
> >c2t1d0: configured with capacity of 6.56MB
> >c2t1d30: configured with capacity of 34.04GB
> >c2t1d31: configured with capacity of 34.04GB
> >c2t1d81: configured with capacity of 34.04GB
>
>
> >AVAILABLE DISK SELECTIONS:
> >       0. c0t0d0 <SUN18G cyl 7506 alt 2 hd 19 sec 248>
> >          /pci@1f,4000/scsi@3/sd@0,0
> >       1. c2t1d0 <EMC-SYMMETRIX-5567 cyl 14 alt 2 hd 15 sec 64>
> >          /pci@4,2000/scsi@1/sd@1,0
> >       2. c2t1d30 <EMC-SYMMETRIX-5567 cyl 37178 alt 2 hd 30 sec 64>
> >          /pci@4,2000/scsi@1/sd@1,1e
> >       3. c2t1d31 <EMC-SYMMETRIX-5567 cyl 37178 alt 2 hd 30 sec 64>
> >          /pci@4,2000/scsi@1/sd@1,1f
> >       4. c2t1d81 <EMC-SYMMETRIX-5567 cyl 37178 alt 2 hd 30 sec 64>
> >          /pci@4,2000/scsi@1/sd@1,51
>
> >except of c0t0d0 everything else is network attached...
>
>
> How is it attached? Using FACL or ISCSI?
FACL
>
> In any case, it seems to be a natural solution to do it this way.
>
> In order to access a network disk, you need to obtain the right to
> do so first. Once this has been done, the netork subsystem just looks
> like a new SCSI bus.

Exactly.
Then I should say that this naming scheme is usefull, but so ugly...