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

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

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 Sarg

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

Re: Persistent device names

2006-05-16 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. > > b

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 > carelessl

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 th

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 con