Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 13 Jan 1998 23:13:37 -0800 (PST) | From | "Mr. James W. Laferriere Network Engineer" <> | Subject | Re: SCSI naming scheme: I've almost decided |
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Hello All,
On Tue, 13 Jan 1998, Albert D. Cahalan wrote: > mingo writes: > > On Tue, 13 Jan 1998, Richard Gooch wrote: > > >> Yep, I'm inclined to agree. I think I've decided on > >> the SCSI disc naming scheme: > >> /dev/dsk/sd_h0c0t0u0p2 > >> > >> The "dsk" is compatible with Solaris, IRIX and HP-UX. The "sd" is > >> needed because /dev/dsk is going to have non-SCSI discs (IDE, > >> floppy, MD and so on). > > > > hm, whats the point in half-compatibility? The sd_ stuff (and the rest) > > will break Solaris scripts anyway i guess. Compatibility with _broken_ > > naming schemes makes only sense if it's 100%, otherwise it's not too > > useful i guess. So why use 3-letter cryptic abbreviations, why not 'disk' > > simply ... or do you want cdrm and flpy and tp and mgntcdsk too? ;) > > I agree, half-compatibility is broken. This would solve the problem: > > /dev/dsk/c1t0d0s2 -> ../disk/sd_h1c1t0u0p2 > /dev/dsk/c1t1d0s0 -> ../disk/scd_h1c1t1u0p0 > /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s2 -> ../disk/ide_h0c0t0u0p2 > /dev/dsk/c0t8d0s2 -> ../disk/fd_h0c0t8u0p2 Or
/dev/dsk/c1t0d0s2 -> ../disk/sd/h1c1t0u0p2 ;-) /dev/dsk/c1t1d0s0 -> ../disk/scd/h1c1t1u0p0 /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s2 -> ../disk/ide/h0c0t0u0p2 /dev/dsk/c0t8d0s2 -> ../disk/fd/h0c0t8u0p2
Still something that (almost) all can sink their teeth into, Seems to cover both worlds.
> It would be OK to just reserve /dev/dsk for future use. > I think it is important to give floppy+ide the c0* name, > unless Solaris/x86 has some other solution.
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