[geeks] Swapping Sparc boxes...

[Phil Stracchino]

On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 04:05:59PM -0500, Kurt Mosiejczuk wrote:
> On Thu, 4 Dec 2003, Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:
> > > /dev/sd/c0b0t1u0p3.
> 
> > I have to wonder why they did host and bus separately instead of just
> > doing channel, like Solaris does.  I suppose the Linux way is more
> > correct, but it's another number to keep up with.
> 
> I also wonder why the two forms insist on using DIFFERENT nomenclature.
> Is it so wrong to be somewhat consistent?  Why c0 when they call it
> host0 above?  Why u0 for lun0?

I think they were intentionally trying to make the nomenclature
Solaris-like in that form for the sake of people migrating from Solaris 
to Linux.



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