On Fri, 21 Aug 1998, Stefan Grefen wrote:

> I don't see the problem, I would create the device-name during probe/attach
> (I know it means reading the label of a disk very early and polled). 
> Mountroot will be happy.  (this solves also the problem with scsi-id's lower
> then roots which may be there or not ...)

This works well on SCSI buses where you have a half dozen devices at most.
On a fibre with 1000s of disks reading disklabels suddenly becomes quite
expensive.

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