Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 18 Jan 1998 01:13:44 -0800 | From | "Leonard N. Zubkoff" <> | Subject | Re: devfs |
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Date: Sun, 18 Jan 1998 15:41:57 +1100 From: Richard Gooch <rgooch@atnf.CSIRO.AU>
It does seem inconsistent to have letters delimiting all the other parameters except the slices. If you can come up with a different letter for "slice" which doesn't sound too contrived, I'd prefer that. Right now 's' could be either "subdevice" or "slice". One could use 'l' for discLabel, but that looks too much like '1'.
While I perfer the more abstract device/subdevice concept to the more specific device/partition/slice proposal, device/subdevice is not really general enough to handle slices within partitions without using a contrived subdevice encoding. I don't have a reasonable suggestion to offer for extending it ("k" for contrived, anyone? :-)), so it looks like using device/partition/slice is the best we're going to do.
Leonard
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