Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 08 Feb 2001 17:31:56 -0600 | From | Thomas Dodd <> | Subject | Re: spelling of disc (disk) in /devfs |
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Peter Samuelson wrote: > > [Jeremy M. Dolan] > > Disk is spelled 'disk' except for Compact Disc and Digital Versatile > > Disc. If it wasn't 3:30 in the morning, a patch would be attached. > > It wouldn't do any good. Many months ago, Ted Ts'o pleaded with > Richard Gooch (devfs author, from Australia) to switch to the American > spelling of the word, for consistency with the rest of the kernel, and > nothing came of it. At this point you may as well consider > '/dev/discs' an "interface set in stone". (Come on, do *you* want to > explain to thousands of people why their /etc/fstab suddenly broke?)
Better still, follow the lead from other Solaris and HP-UX.
/dev/dsk/* block access for hard drives /dev/rdsk/* char access for hard drives /dev/diskette block access for floppy drives /dev/rdiskette char access for floppy drives /dev/rscsi/* char access for raw scsi (replace /dev/sg* )
Since linux currently doesn't have char access to drives, rdsk/rdiskette would be ignored untill it is implemented and needed.
My $0.02
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