and now it's walking! Re: iSCSI first steps!

[Scott Long]

Danny Braniss wrote:
> i've stumbled on an error, and not sure it's mine :-)
> the target minor device number keeps growing, so far im still
> using 'camcontrol rescan' to update the devices, and so, dmesg:
> 
> (da0:iscsi0:0:0:0): lost device
> (da0:iscsi0:0:0:0): removing device entry
> ...
> da0 at iscsi0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0
> da0: <NETAPP LUN 0.2> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-4 device 
> da0: 153600MB (314572800 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 19581C)
> ...
> 
> (da0:iscsi0:0:0:0): lost device
> (da0:iscsi0:0:0:0): removing device entry
> 
> but the /dev/da0 minor device keeps growing on every reconnect.
> 
> danny
> 
> 

I think that this is a normal consequence of how the devfs layer works
now, but it indeed could indicate a problem.  Remember that static major
and minor numbers have little meaning now in 6-current, since devices
can only be accessed through a devfs mount.

Scott