Re: Disk naming (Was Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] Guest boot loadersupport [1/2])

[Adam Heath <doogie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 14 Apr 2005, Gerd Knorr wrote:

> I think we should have our own xd virtual block devices for xen and
> use them by default.  It's cleaner, and probably also has less
> problems when using virtual disks and iSCSI at the same time ;)
>
> Using hd/sd instead probably is a useful option in some cases, I
> wouldn't drop that altogether, but only use that if the user
> explicitly asks for it.

Or, implement a xen scsi host driver, that acts like a real scsi host
controller, but instead imports virtual blocks.  This seems like the best of
both worlds.

Note, this is not a overlay system like is done currently, nor is it a block
driver.

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