[geeks] Swapping Sparc boxes...

[Kurt Mosiejczuk]

On Thu, 4 Dec 2003, Phil Stracchino wrote:

> 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.

Then why did they change the d0 to u0?  And s3 to p3?  That doesn't
explain it....

--Kurt