Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] 2.6.2, Partition support for SCSI CDROM... | From | Miles Bader <> | Date | 25 Feb 2004 10:58:37 +0900 |
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Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org> writes: > sr0 whole disc > sr0a ... sr0o partitions > sr1, sr1a ... sr1o > > It's probably too late to be consistent with discs and call them > sra, sra1, ... sra15 > srb, srb1, ... srb15
The (BSDish) xx0a convention is arguably better anyway (because the various parts of the name split naturally along the letter-digit boundaries); I never quite figured out why linux used the convention it does for disks.
[Of course consistency generally wins out over niceness, but where consistency isn't an option...]
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