Re: Identifying disks by name

2011-06-23 Thread Henning Brauer
* Janjaap van Velthooven janj...@stack.nl [2011-06-22 21:37]: Just a vague idea for the moment; How aboot some mechanism that can do number lookups by name for disks? like... fstab? b6c15508a519d7ae.d /backup/ftp ffs rw,softdep,nodev,nosuid,noexec,noatime,noauto -- Henning Brauer,

Identifying disks by name

2011-06-22 Thread Wouter Coene
Hi all, The patch below builds on the disk UID code to implement disk names. Disk names must match [a-zA-Z0-9_]{1,10} and are stored encoded as 6 bits per character into the disklabel UID field. With this patch, you can use disk names in /etc/fstab: bootdisk.a / ffs rw 1 1 And with

Re: Identifying disks by name

2011-06-22 Thread Kenneth R Westerback
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 06:48:14PM +0200, Wouter Coene wrote: Hi all, The patch below builds on the disk UID code to implement disk names. Disk names must match [a-zA-Z0-9_]{1,10} and are stored encoded as 6 bits per character into the disklabel UID field. With this patch, you can use disk

Re: Identifying disks by name

2011-06-22 Thread Wouter Coene
On 22 jun 2011, at 20:53, Kenneth R Westerback wrote: On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 06:48:14PM +0200, Wouter Coene wrote: The patch below builds on the disk UID code to implement disk names. Disk names must match [a-zA-Z0-9_]{1,10} and are stored encoded as 6 bits per character into the disklabel

Re: Identifying disks by name

2011-06-22 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2011/06/22 21:07, Wouter Coene wrote: Also, this is certainly not useless if you have more than a handfull of disks or SAN volumes, or for removable media. Which of the following is more readable? mount 1234567890abcdef.a /mnt mount backups.a /mnt mount bac1.a

Re: Identifying disks by name

2011-06-22 Thread Thordur Bjornsson
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 09:07:41PM +0200, Wouter Coene wrote: On 22 jun 2011, at 20:53, Kenneth R Westerback wrote: On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 06:48:14PM +0200, Wouter Coene wrote: The patch below builds on the disk UID code to implement disk names. Disk names must match [a-zA-Z0-9_]{1,10} and

Re: Identifying disks by name

2011-06-22 Thread Janjaap van Velthooven
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 08:12:28PM +0100, Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2011/06/22 21:07, Wouter Coene wrote: Also, this is certainly not useless if you have more than a handfull of disks or SAN volumes, or for removable media. Which of the following is more readable? mount

Re: Identifying disks by name

2011-06-22 Thread Thordur Bjornsson
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 09:34:55PM +0200, Janjaap van Velthooven wrote: On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 08:12:28PM +0100, Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2011/06/22 21:07, Wouter Coene wrote: Also, this is certainly not useless if you have more than a handfull of disks or SAN volumes, or for

Re: Identifying disks by name

2011-06-22 Thread roberth
On Wed, 22 Jun 2011 21:07:41 +0200 Wouter Coene wou...@irdc.nl wrote: mount 1234567890abcdef.a /mnt mount backups.a /mnt # export backups=1234567890abcdef # mount $backups.a /mnt I myself prefere to include the slice, less to remember/look up.

Re: Identifying disks by name

2011-06-22 Thread Thordur Bjornsson
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 09:54:07PM +0200, Janjaap van Velthooven wrote: Thordur Bjornsson wrote and mailed: On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 09:34:55PM +0200, Janjaap van Velthooven wrote: Just a vague idea for the moment; How aboot some mechanism that can do number lookups by name for disks?