In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Rasmus Skaarup writes:
>> Well, the recognition/configuration issue is not one GEOM magically can >> solve for you, but GEOM promises that if you can recognize it and >> configure it, GEOM will not get in your way for doing what you want. > >But what if the name of the device somehow depended on the ID on the >device? So you could recognize the same disk on multiple hosts, and having >the same name for the device on each host. > >But this should maybe be left up to the method to assign? The methods decide the names of their g_geom and g_providers. If you look in the BSD and MBR modules, you can see how they simply tack a letter or "s%d" onto the name from below. There is nothing to prevent you from creating an entirely new name if you want to. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
