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hokie1999 03-01-2012 10:41 AM
cciss - what is it
 
Hello, I've searched your forums w/o luck on this question, but what is cciss? If I see a partition on Oracle Enterprise Linux 5 4 (shown below)

# fdisk -l
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/cciss/c0d0p1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux
/dev/cciss/c0d0p2 14 8920 71545477+ 8e Linux LVM


I'm not familar with that format. Usually, you'll see /dev/sdaX or /dev/mapper/VolGroupXXLogVolYY for partitions. Has anyone ever seen a tutorial on why devices are set up this way? Also what does the "c", the "d", the "p" stand for?

unSpawn 03-01-2012 11:08 AM
See /kernel/Documentation/cciss.txt?

lithos 03-01-2012 11:22 AM
Hi hokie1999

cciss is a driver for HP SmartArray RAID card in the server.

TB0ne 03-01-2012 01:34 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by hokie1999 (Post 4616091)
Hello, I've searched your forums w/o luck on this question, but what is cciss? If I see a partition on Oracle Enterprise Linux 5 4 (shown below)

# fdisk -l
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/cciss/c0d0p1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux
/dev/cciss/c0d0p2 14 8920 71545477+ 8e Linux LVM

I'm not familar with that format. Usually, you'll see /dev/sdaX or /dev/mapper/VolGroupXXLogVolYY for partitions. Has anyone ever seen a tutorial on why devices are set up this way? Also what does the "c", the "d", the "p" stand for?
Did you try putting "what is cciss" into Google???

http://cciss.sourceforge.net/
http://www.mjmwired.net/kernel/Documentation/cciss.txt
http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man4/cciss.4.html


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