Re: Semi up to date JOBS list

From: Rogier Wolff (R.E.Wolff@BitWizard.nl)
Date: Wed Jun 14 2000 - 10:20:54 EST


Richard Gooch wrote:
> Alan Cox writes:
> > > The problem that I see with using a letter for the device-instance field
> > > is that after 26 we run out of letters.
> >
> > We already use letter pairs for this in scsi
>
> Could we please avoid further ugliness like this? Let's make a clean
> break and use numbers.

We already do. /dev/scd0 /dev/scd1 etc.

We'll get /dev/scd0a as the first partition on that disk.

                        Roger.

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