Re: Persistent device names

2006-05-17 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 01:07:29PM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote: Hi, - Are there likely to be architecture specific issues with persistent device naming? - Or with filesystems other than ext2/ext3? Nothing I know about. tree /dev/disk/ should give you some ideas. by-label links

Re: Persistent device names

2006-05-17 Thread Marco d'Itri
On May 17, Junichi Uekawa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Some enterprise-level storage systems have disk-level duplication system, as such, filesystem-label-based mount-point would not be the end-all way of approaching the problem. Can you describe which designs require this? I have never heard of

Re: Persistent device names

2006-05-17 Thread Bastian Blank
On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 01:00:45AM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: - We should like to keep support for devfs and regular device names in the installer; loosing that would mean no support for 2.2/2.4 installs (although those are likely to be dropped anyway) and no support for installs of Sarge

Re: Persistent device names

2006-05-17 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Hi, Some enterprise-level storage systems have disk-level duplication system, as such, filesystem-label-based mount-point would not be the end-all way of approaching the problem. Can you describe which designs require this? I have never heard of such a setup, and I have some doubts that

Re: Persistent device names

2006-05-17 Thread David Härdeman
On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 01:00:45AM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: To discuss this subject, I've still wanted to set up a discussion with at least Marco, you, Joey and Colin, but for different reasons have not gotten around to that. As I'll be on holiday for a few weeks after Debconf, let me at least

Persistent device names

2006-05-16 Thread Frans Pop
To discuss this subject, I've still wanted to set up a discussion with at least Marco, you, Joey and Colin, but for different reasons have not gotten around to that. As I'll be on holiday for a few weeks after Debconf, let me at least list the issues that I've had in mind and that should be

Re: Persistent device names

2006-05-16 Thread Marco d'Itri
On May 17, Frans Pop [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - We should like to keep support for devfs and regular device names in the installer; loosing that would mean no support for 2.2/2.4 installs (although those are likely to be dropped anyway) and no support for installs of Sarge and I think

Re: Persistent device names

2006-05-16 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Hi, - Are there likely to be architecture specific issues with persistent device naming? - Or with filesystems other than ext2/ext3? Nothing I know about. tree /dev/disk/ should give you some ideas. by-label links are user friendly, but may become ambiguous if users carelessly