Re: devfs

Albert D. Cahalan (acahalan@cs.uml.edu)
Sun, 11 Jan 1998 19:35:32 -0500 (EST)


Pavel Machek writes:

> Well, I do not like to be devices called like c0b0t0d0s1.
>
> I think that scsi0.0.0.0.1 would be much more acceptable.
> Really, those letters are for nothing, just one more thing
> to remember. If you maintain logical order (and this is logical),
> you do not need ugly letters in between.

Good idea. Since *.1 names look like libraries and man pages,
it would be best to avoid that. Also, this applies to non-SCSI.

We also need a simple old-style name and a volume label,
which could be symlinks to the exact physical name.

This looks good:

/dev/disk/1-1-1-0-2 # exact physical name
/dev/sdb2 -> disk/1-1-1-0-2 # simple name
/dev/volumes/users_a_to_m -> ../disk/1-1-1-0-2 # volume label