Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 20 Jun 2002 23:36:31 +0200 | From | Martin Dalecki <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] /proc/scsi/map |
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Użytkownik Linus Torvalds napisał: > > On Thu, 20 Jun 2002, Martin Dalecki wrote: > >>> /devices/disks/disk0 -> ../../pci0/00:02.0/02:1f.0/03:07.0/disk0 >> >> ^^^^^^^^^^ You notice the redundancy in naming here :-). > > > I'd rather have redundancy than have horrible names like just "0", thank > you very much. > > It takes up no space, all the dentries are virtual anyway, and a dentry > embeds the storage for the first n characters (n ~16 or something like > that). > > >>Boah the chierachies are already deep enough. /devices/net/eth@XX >>will cut it. > > > There is _no_ excuse for being terse.
Yes indeed:
ls DIR cp COPY mv REANME cat TYPE
Note: the VMS stuff was even longer. You ever used the "shell" there?
> Also, never EVER use special characters like "@" unless there is _reason_ > to use them. I don't see any reason to make a filesystem look like perl.
The reaons is that it is making the splitup betwen the enumeration and naming part very easy. Not just for scripts but for C code as well. Numbers get user quite frequently for versioning as well. And I tought the above should be mainly used by programs?
> Please use sane names like "disknnn" over insane cryptographically secure > filesystem contents like "sd@nnn".
I'm so used to sd@ :-). Don't invent where you can borrow - or you will go the esperanto way.
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