Re: [PATCH] 2.6.2, Partition support for SCSI CDROM...

[Andries Brouwer]

On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 05:09:06PM +0000, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 11:51:20AM -0500, Steven J. Hill wrote:

> > + *    sr0 - first CDROM, whole disk
> > + *    sr1 - first CDROM, first partition
> > + *
> > + *    [...]
> > + *
> > + *    sr16 - first CDROM, sixteenth partition
> > + *    sr17 - second CDROM, whole disk
> > + *    sr18 - second CDROM, first partition
> 
> Umm... no.  I suspect you mean:
> 
> sr15 - first CDROM, fifteenth partition
> sr16 - second CDROM, whole disk
> sr17 - second CDROM, first partition
> 
> But what a bad idea for device names.  Why not
> 
> sr0 whole disc
> sr0a ... sr0o partitions
> sr1, sr1a ... sr1o
> 
> It's probably too late to be consistent with discs and call them
> sra, sra1, ... sra15
> srb, srb1, ... srb15

It is standard convention to use numerical suffixes to refer
to partitions, with a 'p' separator in case the full device
has a name ending in a digit.

So: sr0p1, ..., sr0p15, sr1p1, ...

Andries
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