On 28 Jan 2003 at 8:54am, Eric Sproul wrote

> Hi all,
> After searching the archives, I can't seem to find an answer to a
> nagging little problem-- one of my clients is a Solaris 8 machine
> running software RAID, so its devices begin with "/dev/md/dsk...". 
> However, AMANDA does not have this as one of her defined prefixes, so
> I'm forced to put the entire device name in my disklist, e.g.
> "/dev/md/dsk/d14" instead of just "d14" which would be nice and neat.
> 
> I don't see a configure option where you can specify the device prefix. 
> >From the debug output, I know the client at least has the ordinary
> "/dev/dsk" prefix.  How do I add/change the device prefix in the
> client?  I'm currently running 2.4.2p2 on the client, but I can upgrade
> if there is a way in the latest version.

It looks like this is defined (as DEV_PREFIX and RDEV_PREFIX) in 
config/config.h based on the results of ./configure.  You could add the 
check to the configure script or just change the values of (R)DEV_PREFIX 
in config.h.  I'm not sure if this will break anything, so test it.

> As I said, this is really just a nuisance.  The client is being backed
> up just fine.  I just want my disklist to look nice!  ;-P

Well, IMO, mount points look a lit nicer than device names.  They also 
stay consistent should the underlying hardware/config change.  Just my 
$0.02.

-- 
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University