Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 20 Feb 2000 23:52:02 -0800 (PST) | From | "Mr. James W. Laferriere" <> | Subject | new or old devfs naming scheme (Was: Re: devfs howto) |
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Hello Richard, I have to agree with Sergey on the point of liking the old names over the new . But I guess I can get devfsd to create them for me can't I ? Tia, JimL
On Mon, 21 Feb 2000, Sergey Kubushin wrote: > On Mon, 21 Feb 2000, Richard Gooch wrote: ...snip... > > > > Having "partX" in the partition table scan may make it too long. The > > reason the devfs names are not "pX" is because Linus wanted a longer > > name. I'd be quite happy to shorten them. > > Just my $.25 - I liked the old devfs names (that of /dev/sda/c0b0t0u0p1) > much more than /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 ... +----------------------------------------------------------------+ | James W. Laferriere | System Techniques | Give me VMS | | Network Engineer | 25416 22nd So | Give me Linux | | babydr@baby-dragons.com | DesMoines WA 98198 | only on AXP | +----------------------------------------------------------------+
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