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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