Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 21 Feb 2000 12:50:30 -0500 (EST) | From | Andrew Park <> | Subject | Re: devfs howto |
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On Mon, 21 Feb 2000, Edward S. Marshall wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Feb 2000, Sergey Kubushin wrote: > > Just my $.25 - I liked the old devfs names (that of /dev/sda/c0b0t0u0p1) > > much more than /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 ... > > Let me be the lone voice speaking up for keeping the longer names. ;-) Two > reasons: > > a) parsing this programmatically becomes incredibly easy; the filesystem > handles the hierarchy for you, instead of having to parse the name. You > can easily traverse the whole tree without ever having to do messy > string manipulations (meaning a shell can do it without difficulty). >
> b) the naming scheme is human-readable instead of symbolic, and mirrors > the and mirrors the kernel's (and hardware's) underlying hierarchy of > devices, channels, hosts, luns, partitions, etc, making it more useful > and instructive to the user managing it.
my $0.02 ...
I'd much rather have more *readable*, and perhaps *little* longer names than *short*, and symbolic names.
Andrew Park
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