Re: SCSI Tapes and devfs

["brett holcomb" <brettholcomb@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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 :))))