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H. Peter Anvin wrote in response to Joe Pranevich:
> Your devfs comments are inaccurate at most. For example:
>
> What, for instance, would happen if you had more than 26
> harddisks, such as a large fileserver doing software RAID?
>
> The 27th SCSI disk is named /dev/sdaa. There is nothing funny about
> it. The bottom line is that devfs takes things that belong in user
> space, forces them into kernel space, and then expects user space to
> clean up the resulting mess.
Joe,
The following document discusses device naming in
the SCSI subsystem. This includes both the original
device naming scheme and the recently introduced devfs
scheme:
http://www.torque.net/scsi/linux_scsi_24/
See Chapter 3: "Names and addresses"
Then you can judge for yourself.
Doug Gilbert
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