Re: devfs

Leonard N. Zubkoff (lnz@dandelion.com)
Tue, 13 Jan 1998 11:19:33 -0800


Date: Tue, 13 Jan 1998 10:33:04 -0800 (PST)
From: Jauder Ho <jauderho@transmeta.com>

how about this?

/dev/sd/h0c0t0u0p2

There. that should make everyone happy...

first part after the /dev describes the type of device so
you can have /dev/scd/.... , /dev/sgd

and preserve all the current names

I think either /dev/dsk/sd_... or /dev/sd/... are both reasonable choices.

I am now wondering what the rationale is for using "p" rather than "s" for the
partition number. I cannot think of any particularly compelling reason for
either choice. "p" is somewhat more mnemonic, but I find "s" slightly more
esthetic (since "p" would be the only character with a descender) and it is
compatible with other systems. So how about:

/dev/sd/h0c0t0u0s2

versus

/dev/dsk/sd_h0c0t0u0s2

I think I personally would prefer the former.

Leonard