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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 14:22:41 -0500
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On Fri, 17 Jan 2003 09:40:32 +0300
 Borzenkov Andrey <Andrey.Borzenkov@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

If I create some symlinks such as

ln -s /dev/tape0 /dev/st/c1b0t0u0m0
ln -s /dev/tape0 /dev/st/c1b0t0u0m0n
ls -s /dev/sg/dev/auto_changer0 /dev/sg/c1b0t1u0


I hope you mean ln -s st/c1b0t0u0m0 /dev/tape0. /dev/st is managed by devfsd
internally - do not mess up with it!

Yes, I messed up and had these backwards. Sorry. But from your previous email I should NOT be doing this anyway - I need to say out of /dev and do the work through /etc/devfsd.conf - correct/

Looks like it should work, with comment above.

And when do I modify /etc/devfsd.conf - or do I ever. I understand I need to modify it for the cdrw but what else would I have to do with it
as it seems setup to cover everything necessary?


If you want to change names, change permissions or whatever and make absolutely sure they persist across reboots even if /lib/dev-state is wiped out (that is the first thing you must do if you have problem with names
under /dev :))))


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