Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 27 Mar 2001 16:10:58 -0800 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: Larger dev_t |
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Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, Alan Cox wrote: > > > > A major for 'disk' generically makes total sense. Classing raid controllers > > as 'scsi' isnt neccessarily accurate. A major for 'serial ports' would also > > solve a lot of misery > > Exactly. It's just that for historical reasons, I think the major for > "disk" should be either the old IDE or SCSI one, which just can show more > devices. That way old installers etc work without having to suddenly start > knowing about /dev/disk0. > > But hey, maybe I'm wrong. >
They would still have to change, since now we'd have to worry about /dev/hd* having changed meanings; also, you now cannot create a backward-compatible /dev since /dev/hdc is (22,0), etc, in the current scheme. The SCSI scheme is also not acceptable; it has been a long-standing problem that it doesn't allow enough partitions per disk.
-hpa
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