On Sunday, 11 March 2001 at 22:26:11 -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> * Greg Lehey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010311 21:20] wrote:
>> On Sunday, 11 March 2001 at 20:39:03 -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
>>> * Greg Lehey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010311 15:21] wrote:
>>>> On Sunday, 11 March 2001 at 3:27:02 -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Vinum+DEVFS doesn't make the million symlinks that non-devfs
>>>>> vinum does.
>>>>
>>>> The only symlinks that the non-devfs version makes are to the drives.
>>>> Everything else is device nodes. But yes, it doesn't make as many
>>>> device nodes, and that is a Good Thing.
>>>>
>>>>> Try using /dev/vinum/vol/raid01 instead of /dev/vinum/raid01
>>>>>
>>>>> (notice you need the '/vol/' path component)
>>>>
>>>> I missed that. This is not correct. The directory /dev/vinum/vol
>>>> should go away.
>>>
>>> Er, too late. :)
>>>
>>> On a devfs system here's what you'll see:
>>>
>>>>> ls -lR /dev/vinum/
>>> total 0
>>> crw------- 1 root wheel 91, 0x40000001 Feb 22 21:26 Control
>>> crw------- 1 root wheel 91, 0x40000002 Feb 22 21:26 control
>>> crw------- 1 root wheel 91, 0x40000000 Feb 22 21:26 controld
>>> drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 0 Mar 11 03:24 plex
>>> drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 0 Mar 11 03:24 sd
>>> drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 0 Mar 11 03:24 vol
>>>
>>> /dev/vinum/plex:
>>> total 0
>>> crw------- 1 root wheel 91, 1 Feb 22 21:26 vinum0.p0
>>>
>>> /dev/vinum/sd:
>>> total 0
>>> crw------- 1 root wheel 91, 2 Feb 22 21:26 vinum0.p0.s0
>>> crw------- 1 root wheel 91, 0x10000002 Feb 22 21:26 vinum0.p0.s1
>>>
>>> /dev/vinum/vol:
>>> total 0
>>> crw------- 1 root wheel 91, 0 Feb 22 21:26 vinum0
>>>
>>>
>>> I'd like to keep it this way, it just makes sense.
>>
>> No, that's a gratuitous change. All the docco talks about keeping the
>> volumes in the main directory. That's why people are having trouble.
>> Yes, it looks more uniform, but the objects aren't uniform.
>
> Since both you and Poul refused to fix the code I choose how I thought
> it should be. Can you explain why:
>
>> Yes, it looks more uniform, but the objects aren't uniform.
>
> It just doesn't make sense to me to mix these device nodes in
> with the control/Control/controld nodes.
Understood. But I don't like the very long device names.
> Also, why not have a /dev/vinum/ctl/ directory for those nodes?
I can go along with that. They're almost completely invisible
anyway. We could even call it /dev/vinum/.ctl.
Greg
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