Re: Fwd: [osol-discuss] Re: Project Proposal - "Simplified Solaris Device Naming" (a.k.a Devname)

2006-06-06 Thread Darren J Moffat
James Carlson wrote: Dick Davies writes: On 02/06/06, James Carlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: UNIX admin writes: One of the rare things I like is how Linux solved this: regardless of the networking HW, all interfaces are named "eth[0-N]", for example eth0, eth1, ... , ethN. Linux isn't the o

Re: Fwd: [osol-discuss] Re: Project Proposal - "Simplified Solaris Device Naming" (a.k.a Devname)

2006-06-06 Thread James Carlson
Dick Davies writes: > On 02/06/06, James Carlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > UNIX admin writes: > > > One of the rare things I like is how Linux solved this: regardless > > > of the networking HW, all interfaces are named "eth[0-N]", for > > > example eth0, eth1, ... , ethN. > > > > Linux isn't

Fwd: [osol-discuss] Re: Project Proposal - "Simplified Solaris Device Naming" (a.k.a Devname)

2006-06-06 Thread Dick Davies
On 02/06/06, James Carlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: UNIX admin writes: > One of the rare things I like is how Linux solved this: regardless > of the networking HW, all interfaces are named "eth[0-N]", for > example eth0, eth1, ... , ethN. Linux isn't the only one to do this. AIX, BSD, and oth

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Project Proposal - "Simplified Solaris Device Naming" (a.k.a Devname)

2006-06-05 Thread Joerg Schilling
Darren J Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > James Carlson wrote: > >> I also like the fact that for my laptop when running Linux, I don't have > >> to remember how the network driver is called. But the above problem, how > >> is it addressed on Linux ? On Solaris at least, that issue only occur

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Project Proposal - "Simplified Solaris Device Naming" (a.k.a Devname)

2006-06-02 Thread Philip Brown
On Fri, Jun 02, 2006 at 03:23:25PM +0100, Darren J Moffat wrote: > I think it is worse on Solaris because it looks like you can work it out > and it appears to be predictable :-( well, at least once you have a particular box's naming scheme worked out, it is reasonably predictable. "eri1" will AL

[osol-discuss] Re: Project Proposal - "Simplified Solaris Device Naming" (a.k.a Devname)

2006-06-02 Thread David Comay
> One of the rare things I like in Linux, is how Linux > solved this: regardless of the networking HW, all > interfaces are named "eth[0-N]", for example eth0, > eth1, ... , ethN. > > Perhaps this would be a solution to consider? There > can still be bge0, and iprb0, iprb1 or ce0 in the > system,

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Project Proposal - "Simplified Solaris Device Naming" (a.k.a Devname)

2006-06-02 Thread Darren J Moffat
James Carlson wrote: I also like the fact that for my laptop when running Linux, I don't have to remember how the network driver is called. But the above problem, how is it addressed on Linux ? On Solaris at least, that issue only occurs if you have multiple cards of the same type... which isn'

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Project Proposal - "Simplified Solaris Device Naming" (a.k.a Devname)

2006-06-02 Thread James Carlson
UNIX admin writes: > One of the rare things I like is how Linux solved this: regardless > of the networking HW, all interfaces are named "eth[0-N]", for > example eth0, eth1, ... , ethN. Linux isn't the only one to do this. AIX, BSD, and other variants do it as well. > Perhaps this would be a so

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Project Proposal - "Simplified Solaris Device Naming" (a.k.a Devname)

2006-06-02 Thread Frank Hofmann
On Fri, 2 Jun 2006, UNIX admin wrote: Currently, the names of network interfaces are tied to the underlying hardware, for example, bge0. This is so because of historical reasons, i.e. SunOS/BSD naming conventions, which rely on networking HW having its own name. One of the rare things I lik

[osol-discuss] Re: Project Proposal - "Simplified Solaris Device Naming" (a.k.a Devname)

2006-06-02 Thread UNIX admin
> Currently, the names of network interfaces are tied > to the > underlying hardware, for example, bge0. This is so because of historical reasons, i.e. SunOS/BSD naming conventions, which rely on networking HW having its own name. One of the rare things I like is how Linux solved this: regardl

[osol-discuss] Re: Project Proposal - "Simplified Solaris Device Naming" (a.k.a Devname)

2006-06-01 Thread Zhou Yun
[Apologize for the late clarification. We are aware of this thread only very recently.] There seems a lot of confusing around the Clearview project and the /dev/net namespace it will introduce. As a team member of the Clearview project, I'd like to make some clarification: * A major component o

[osol-discuss] Re: Project Proposal - "Simplified Solaris Device Naming" (a.k.a Devname)

2006-06-01 Thread UNIX admin
> I do not think anyone mentioned /dev/root yet. > If that is what IRIX6.5 was doing, there is no copy > issue here. You did write the following: "- portable system device names. e.g. replacing /dev/dsk/c0tWWNd0s0 with /dev/sys/root (RFE. 6311403)." Which is conceptually exactly the same thing;

[osol-discuss] Re: Project Proposal - "Simplified Solaris Device Naming" (a.k.a Devname)

2006-05-31 Thread Yonghong Lucy Lai
> > Here is a real life example of the inconvenience > > without a generic > > root device name. In a sparc farm, a script is > > written for jumpstart > > 100 systems. It needs 100 copies of the jumpstart > > scripts because > > each system has it own WWN for the root device. > > However, only

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Project Proposal - "Simplified Solaris Device Naming" (a.k.a Devname)

2006-05-31 Thread Casper . Dik
>I still want `inst`, `swmgr` and `swpkg` from IRIX on Solaris... Is this perhaps Godwin's law for opensolaris-discuss? (If a discussion on OpenSolaris lasts long enough, someone will mention package tools) Casper ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list

[osol-discuss] Re: Project Proposal - "Simplified Solaris Device Naming" (a.k.a Devname)

2006-05-31 Thread UNIX admin
> Here is a real life example of the inconvenience > without a generic > root device name. In a sparc farm, a script is > written for jumpstart > 100 systems. It needs 100 copies of the jumpstart > scripts because > each system has it own WWN for the root device. > However, only one copy > is ne

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Project Proposal - "Simplified Solaris Device Naming" (a.k.a Devname)

2006-05-31 Thread Octave Orgeron
Re: Project Proposal - "Simplified Solaris Device Naming" (a.k.a Devname) --- Peter Tribble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2006-05-26 at 20:55, Yonghong Lucy Lai > wrote: > > > I can't see any need to mess with physical > names.) > > I agree w

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Project Proposal - "Simplified Solaris Device Naming" (a.k.a Devname)

2006-05-28 Thread Lucy Lai
--- Peter Tribble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2006-05-26 at 20:55, Yonghong Lucy Lai > wrote: > > > I can't see any need to mess with physical > names.) > > I agree with you about the information offered in > the WWN itself, and > > I do not expect that information to go away from > the

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Project Proposal - "Simplified Solaris Device Naming" (a.k.a Devname)

2006-05-27 Thread James Carlson
I. Szczesniak writes: > > - Clearview needs the /dev/net namespace for the flexible interface > > names and the zone-visible interfaces. > > The /dev/net name space just received it's first -1. The idea is a > maintenance hazard and should not be implemented. Devices are hardware > and /dev

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Project Proposal - "Simplified Solaris Device Naming" (a.k.a Devname)

2006-05-26 Thread I. Szczesniak
On 5/26/06, James Carlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Yonghong Lucy Lai writes: > >I'm not sure where Devname would fit in. > > There are a lot more information on the Devname architecture > that we have not discussed so far. > > A biref here is that Devname is implementing a filesystem > for the

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Project Proposal - "Simplified Solaris Device Naming" (a.k.a Devname)

2006-05-26 Thread Tao Chen
Lucy, On 5/26/06, Yonghong Lucy Lai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: .. There are a lot more information on the Devname architecture that we have not discussed so far. A biref here is that Devname is implementing a filesystem for the /dev namespace. It supports mounting a subset of the /dev namespace

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Project Proposal - "Simplified Solaris Device Naming" (a.k.a Devname

2006-05-26 Thread Peter Tribble
On Fri, 2006-05-26 at 20:24, Yonghong Lucy Lai wrote: > > > - persistent storage device names across the > > enterprise. > > > e.g. consistent name for a SANed tape drive (RFE. > > 4096373). > > > > Does this mean additional links? > > A scenario for this problem is: In a shared SAN environment

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Project Proposal - "Simplified Solaris Device Naming" (a.k.a Devname)

2006-05-26 Thread Peter Tribble
On Fri, 2006-05-26 at 20:55, Yonghong Lucy Lai wrote: > > I can't see any need to mess with physical names.) > I agree with you about the information offered in the WWN itself, and > I do not expect that information to go away from the system, either. > > Here is a real life example of the inconv

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Project Proposal - "Simplified Solaris Device Naming" (a.k.a Devname)

2006-05-26 Thread James Carlson
Yonghong Lucy Lai writes: > >I'm not sure where Devname would fit in. > > There are a lot more information on the Devname architecture > that we have not discussed so far. > > A biref here is that Devname is implementing a filesystem > for the /dev namespace. It supports mounting a subset of > t

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Project Proposal - "Simplified Solaris Device Naming" (a.k.a Devname)

2006-05-26 Thread James Dickens
On 5/26/06, Yonghong Lucy Lai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2006-05-25 at 23:19, Yonghong Lai wrote: > > The needs are accumulating for simplified Solaris > device naming. > > Are they? Everything already has a simple, structured > name. It seems I did not convince you even with all the qu

[osol-discuss] Re: Project Proposal - "Simplified Solaris Device Naming" (a.k.a Devname)

2006-05-26 Thread Yonghong Lucy Lai
> On Thu, 2006-05-25 at 23:19, Yonghong Lai wrote: > > The needs are accumulating for simplified Solaris > device naming. > > Are they? Everything already has a simple, structured > name. It seems I did not convince you even with all the quoted references. Well, I am glad that you are happy with

[osol-discuss] Re: Project Proposal - "Simplified Solaris Device Naming" (a.k.a Devname

2006-05-26 Thread Yonghong Lucy Lai
> > - persistent storage device names across the > enterprise. > > e.g. consistent name for a SANed tape drive (RFE. > 4096373). > > Does this mean additional links? A scenario for this problem is: In a shared SAN environment, the same tape device needs to be named the same on all the hosts so

[osol-discuss] Re: Project Proposal - "Simplified Solaris Device Naming" (a.k.a Devname)

2006-05-26 Thread Tatjana S Heuser
Quoting P.Tribble: > I see no advantage whatsoever to hiding important > information. What benefit can possibly accrue from > this? Cluster ? Grid Engine ? -- Tatjana This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list

[osol-discuss] Re: Project Proposal - "Simplified Solaris Device Naming" (a.k.a Devname)

2006-05-26 Thread UNIX admin
> On Thu, 2006-05-25 at 23:19, Yonghong Lai wrote: > > The needs are accumulating for simplified Solaris > device naming. > > Are they? Everything already has a simple, structured > name. > > > Name a few here: > > - persistent storage device names across the > enterprise. > > e.g. consistent n