Re: CD writing in future Linux (stirring up a hornets' nest)

[Jan Engelhardt]

>> Where is the difference between SG_IO-on-hdx and sg0?
>
>It's like the /dev/ttyS* and /dev/cua* situation, where
>we also ended up with multiple device files. This is bad.
>
>SG_IO-on-hdx is modern. It properly associates everything
>with one device, which you may name as desired.

Let's analyze a case:
if /dev/sg0 would always be associated with /dev/hda,
/dev/sg1 always with /dev/hdb, no matter if there was actually a
hda/sg0 device present in the system - would that simplify
the problem?


Jan Engelhardt
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