Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 15 Jan 1998 12:51:13 +1100 | From | Kevin Lentin <> | Subject | Re: devfs |
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On Wed, Jan 14, 1998 at 01:47:46PM +0000, Alastair Donlon wrote: > Solaris slices all fit into a single partition. Solaris only allows a single > ufs partition per disk. So, for each disk, under /dev you get > > dsk/c_t_d_pn where n ranges from 0 to 4 > and > dsk/c_t_d_sn where n ranges from 0 to 7 (or 15)
According to that logic we should use 'p'. And maybe the RAID stuff would use 's' if appropriate. A lot of people have been talking about what other OSes do regarding the choice of naming. BUT we must always consider those schemes relative to what those names refer to. If machines use partitions AND slices and 'p' and 's' to name the devices, then we should use 'p' to be consistent. Otherwise, if we start supporting solaris or SCO partition tables (SCO also creates one Unix partition and then divisions after that) we won't be able to name devices!
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