Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 18 Jan 1998 16:11:47 +1100 | From | Richard Gooch <> | Subject | Re: devfs |
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linux kernel account writes: > On Sun, 18 Jan 1998, Richard Gooch wrote: > > [snip] > > > You're forgetting that someone researched this and reported that "s" and "d" > > > originally stood for "device" and "subdevice", which is more general than > > > partitions or slices and not inherently wrong for fdisk. That's the definition > > > I adopted, not "slice". I still think that /dev/sd/c0b0t0d0 is a reasonable > > > choice for a whole disk and /dev/sd/c0b0t0d0s1 etc for PC style partitions. If > > > we need to incorporate further subdivisions for slices, we can easily extend > > > this to /dev/sd/c0b0t0d0s1.2 to refer to slice 2 within PC partition 1. I > > > think we should retain the convention of referring to logical partitions as > > > subdevices 5..N for compatibility with present Linux systems. > > > > 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'. > > Nope, it's a decmil number!!!
OK, but my point still holds: why not use decimal notation for the whole thing? I.e.: c0b1t2d3s4.5 becomes: 0.1.2.3.4.5 The reason is simple: I hate it so I won't implement it. Arguments sent to Linus ;-)
So, given the whole name isn't in decimal notation, why should the partition/slice section use decimal notation?
Regards,
Richard....
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