Messages in this thread | | | From | Steffen Grunewald <> | Subject | Re: devfs patch v3 | Date | Tue, 13 Jan 1998 11:20:23 +0100 (MET) |
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"ketil@ii.uib.no writes" |> |> I would prefer the directory structure to be named by type of device, |> and have device names be the SCSI path. Like: |> |> /dev/disk/h0c0t4l0s1 |> /dev/tape/h0c0t5 |> |> And perhaps |> |> /dev/cdrom/h0c0t2 |> |> and maybe even |> |> /dev/disk/ide0a |> /dev/floppy/0 |>
Then would would IMHO be most logical to have
/dev/sd/c0b0t4l0s1 /dev/st/c0b0t5 /dev/scd/c0b0t6
(I personally would prefer the controller/bus/target/lun/slice scheme)
and
/dev/id/b0l0s1 (primary IDE bus, master) /dev/it/b1l1 (secondary IDE, slave) /dev/icd/b0l1 (primary, slave)
(well, what corresponds correctly to the SCSI naming scheme ? perhaps not _b_us, but _c_ontroller and _t_arget instead of _l_un ? feel free to add your .02)
and why not
/dev/fd/0 ? /dev/ft/1 ?
What about the special fd devices one needs for formatting ???
Just a few incomplete thoughts ...
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