On Thu, Feb 17, 2000 at 03:37:34PM +0300, Khimenko Victor wrote:
> What should be done now is to clean up all stuff. Gooch done everything he
> can himself. Now when devfs is part of official kernel it's time to polish
> up devfs further. For example situation with ZIP drives does not look right
> to me. When there are no zip disk in drive and module is not loaded there are
> no /dev/ide/host0/bus1/target1/lun0/part4 . If I'll put zip disk in driver and
> will try to mount it ide-floppy will be loaded and mounted. So far so good. The
> bad thing happens when I try to mount zip disk when there are NO zip disk in
> drive. Then only /dev/ide/host0/bus1/target1/lun0/disc is created, not
> /dev/ide/host0/bus1/target1/lun0/part4 :-(( So even if I'll put zip disk in
> drive I can not mount it :-((
BTW I really like devfs, but the new names for mass storage are even uglier then
the old ones ...
It really sucks to type "mkfs.ext /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1".
I'd prefer something like:
/dev/dsk/at0d0a
| | | |
| | | | BSD-like character for partition [a=1, b=2, ...]
| | | d<devicenum (scsi-id for scsi, 0 for ide master, 1 for ide slave, ...)>
| | an two-character-prefix for the device-type (at for ata/ide, sc for scsi) and the bus number
| directory /dev/dsk/ for all disks
I it is needed (and only _if_) there could be lX for lun x between dX and <partiotion character> like:
/dev/dsk/sc0d5l2a.
This would be much more readable (and typeable) without lose of functionality.
Christoph
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