If memory serves me right, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > See LINT on details of how to wire down scsi devices...
> >
> > Your proposal doesn't take adding a second scsi card into account.
>
> Well, I did not mean that has to be da0, da1, etc., but similar thing
> like dac0t0d0, dac0t1d0, ... dac3t4d0, etc. which is much clear what
> disk is.
> A few people does not like this one because the name is long, and it
> is like some commerical configuration. They said that this is Free
> software.
That's an interesting argument on the part of a few people. The
commercial UNIX I first adminned had wired down, short names for disks
(rz0, rz1, rz2, ... ). This was very nice.
> Manually wiring down disks is OK for a small set of hosts. 100+ hosts
> with two or three controllers with 100 TB disks will be terribly pain
> during the setup and maintenance.
It depends on what you mean by "manually". Presumably, these 100+
hosts have fairly similar kernel configurations, so you only need to
build a small number of "wired down" kernels, and then distribute these
out to the hosts.
I've found that that having wired down SCSI devices is a Good Thing
(TM), and it's one of the first things that I fix when I start building
kernels for a new version of FreeBSD. I guess I've just gotten used to
it.
Bruce.
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