Subject: Re: Dynamic SCSI ids (was: A possible way of handling...)
To: Keith Moore <moore@cs.utk.edu>
From: Paul Goyette <paul@pgoyette.bdt.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 03/30/1997 07:55:34
On Sun, 30 Mar 1997, Keith Moore wrote:

> Three things:
 
<snip #1>

> 2) It Sure Would Be Nice If you could wire in a few scsi devices and
> wildcard the rest...say wire in sd0, sd1, and sd2 and let sd3..sdN
> match any other scsi devices that were found.  

Perfectly doable:

	sd0 at scsibus0 target 0 lun 0
	sd1 at scsibus1 target 1 lun 0
	sd* at scsibus? target ? lun ?

> 3) If the mount commands for local file systems had an "-o label=xxx"
> option, this could be included in fstab, and mount would refuse to
> mount that device if it did not have label xxx.  Fsck could also check
> the label and refuse to write to the device if it doesn't have that
> label.

Sounds like a potentially good idea.

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