RE: Disk naming (Was Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH]Guestbootloadersupport [1/2])

["Ian Pratt" <m+Ian.Pratt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> On Thu, 2005-04-14 at 23:02 +0100, Ian Pratt wrote:
> > > http://www.lanana.org/docs/device-list/instructions.txt has the 
> > > instructions.  I can volunteer to send the information 
> upstream.  It 
> > > looks like using xd is already going to be a namespace 
> conflict with 
> > > the ooollldddd IDE devices, though.
> > > What if we go with vbd for the device names?  Then the 
> questions are
> > 
> > Is the fact that it's 3 chars rather than 2 going to cause problems?
> > vda1 ?
> 
> Nah, there's plenty that are longer.  Compaq SmartArray stuff 
> is /dev/cciss/c0d0p1 :)

Let's go with 'xvd' as this is what's used in the code already, e.g.
(from blkfront.c):

static struct xlbd_type_info xlbd_vbd_type = {
    .partn_shift = 4,
    .partn_per_major = 16,
    .devname = "xvd",
    .diskname = "xvd",
};

> I'll send off the request to lanana later this evening

Thanks,
Ian

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