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RE: Disk naming (Was Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] Guestbootloadersupport [1/2

To: Ian Pratt <m+Ian.Pratt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: Disk naming (Was Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] Guestbootloadersupport [1/2])
From: Jeremy Katz <katzj@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 18:11:20 -0400
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On Thu, 2005-04-14 at 23:02 +0100, Ian Pratt wrote:
> > http://www.lanana.org/docs/device-list/instructions.txt has 
> > the instructions.  I can volunteer to send the information 
> > upstream.  It looks like using xd is already going to be a 
> > namespace conflict with the ooollldddd IDE devices, though.  
> > What if we go with vbd for the device names?  Then the questions are
> 
> Is the fact that it's 3 chars rather than 2 going to cause problems?
> vda1 ?

Nah, there's plenty that are longer.  Compaq SmartArray stuff
is /dev/cciss/c0d0p1 :)

I'll send off the request to lanana later this evening

Jeremy


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