Re: DNS-like idea for SCSI (NIS+ maybe)
On Sat, 2004-08-21 at 14:28, Joerg Schilling wrote:
> Albert Cahalan <albert@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
>
> > What about having something like DNS, so that users
> > could name their SCSI devices? I see that www.sun.com
> > is really 209.249.116.195, but my web browser doesn't
> > make me type that in. There's no "mozilla -scanweb" to
> > spit out IP addresses. I just use www.sun.com, which
> > is much easier to remember. It's also good for Sun,
> > since they can change the machine used for www.sun.com
> > without having to disable the old box.
> >
> > Am I mistaken? Do you always type in the numbers?
> > If you don't, please try it for a week.
> >
> > We do the same thing for usernames. You type "schilling"
> > to login, don't you? I doubt you type your UID number.
> >
> > It's nice to be able to have the same account name
> > on different systems, even when you can't get the
> > exact same UID number.
>
> Check the man page of cdrecord for a decription of the features
> that are handled by /etc/default/cdrecord
Hmmm, that's pretty good.
Do you think you could make all the other programs
use that file too? If I define my CD-RW as QueFire
in that file, then "mount QueFire /mnt" had ought
to mount it I think. Also, "dd if=QueFire" should
read from the device, and "cat QueFire" too. It could
get kind of confusing if I had a file named QueFire
as well though. Perhaps there is a better solution?
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