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SubjectRe: 2.4.0-test6 devfs
On Thu, 10 Aug 2000, Matthew Wilcox wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 10, 2000 at 08:54:34PM +0100, James Sutherland wrote:
> > > of course `drive' has an unambiguous spelling.
> >
> > OK, just go into a shop and try buying a pack of 10 floppy drives, instead
> > of 10 floppy disks <g>
>
> which is another good reason for using `drive' instead of `dis[ck]'.
> devfs is referring to the drive, not keeping track of each item of
> removable media.

At the moment, yes - is this the desired behaviour, though? If you look
back at RMS's RFI, an Acorn (Risc OS) style solution to this problem would
change this.


James.


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