Subject: Re: partition bookkeeping
To: None <tech-kern@netbsd.org>
From: Ignatios Souvatzis <ignatios@cs.uni-bonn.de>
List: tech-kern
Date: 09/23/1999 13:40:31
On Thu, Sep 23, 1999 at 12:59:24PM +0200, Christoph Badura wrote:
> 
> I find it kinda amusing that noone has mentioned the "put in another
> controller and suddenly /dev/dsk/c0tNdMsO becomes /dev/dsk/c1tNdMsO"
> problem yet.  ISTR that the last time this carcass was beaten to pulp
> that was the the argument that shot down the whole idea because you
> have to wire down the controllers to the busses, which was decided to be
> impractical for "generic" kernels.

Impossible. Just imagine you swap two PCI SCSI controllers on the PCI bus.

	-is


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