Hello Richard, I have to agree with Sergey on the point
of liking the old names over the new . But I guess I can
get devfsd to create them for me can't I ? Tia, JimL
On Mon, 21 Feb 2000, Sergey Kubushin wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Feb 2000, Richard Gooch wrote:
...snip...
> >
> > Having "partX" in the partition table scan may make it too long. The
> > reason the devfs names are not "pX" is because Linus wanted a longer
> > name. I'd be quite happy to shorten them.
>
> Just my $.25 - I liked the old devfs names (that of /dev/sda/c0b0t0u0p1)
> much more than /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 ...
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