On Tue, 2006-05-09 at 14:06 +0200, Frank Hofmann wrote: > I second the call for consistency, but think that this means dumping > partitions/slices from the actual device name. A disk is a disk - one unit > of storage. How it is subdivided and how/whether the subdivisions are made > available as device nodes should not be the worry of the disk driver, but > rather that of an independent layer. The way it is now may have a history > but that doesn't make it less confusing to me :(
Just a data point. We do that with dids in Sun Cluster. Nobody likes dids either. I usually file this in the "virtualization considered harmful" bucket. -- richard _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
