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Re: SCSI Tapes and devfs

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Subject: Re: SCSI Tapes and devfs
From: "brett holcomb" <brettholcomb@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 14:19:06 -0500
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All I really did was create a symlink in /dev from the tape device (/st/c1...) to /dev/tape0 or /dev/tape0n. For some reason this symlink persists. There are no entries for tapes in /etc/devfsd.conf.

Do I understand you to say that I should put events in /etc/devfsd.conf that deal with the tape devices? What events do I need - Lookup, register, unregister? Copy should be covered by the copy .* and restore portions of the /etc/devfsd.conf file already to give me persistance across boots.

Is that what the /etc/devfsd.conf file is for - to put additional devices in so that devfsd will see them/

Thanks.



On Fri, 17 Jan 2003 00:36:11 -0600
 Steven Lembark <lembark@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

If you updated /dev/tape to magically appear the changerizer
uses the same basic sequence.

Another way to put it: let devfsd manaqge /dev, that's
what it IS there for. Instead of ln -fs in /dev update
/etc/devfsd.conf using, say, "tape" as a template for
the changer device -- all you really need to do is hack
"tape" for "changer" (whatever) and "tape/0/mt" for the
device path to the changerizer.

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Steven Lembark 2930 W. Palmer Workhorse Computing Chicago, IL 60647 +1 773 252 1080



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