Re: /dev/sd*

From: Alan Cox
Date: Thu Aug 17 2006 - 04:23:24 EST


Ar Iau, 2006-08-17 am 11:58 +0400, ysgrifennodd Michael Tokarev:
> The reason, in my opinion anyway, is that not all the word is IDE now,
> and it has been this way for a long time. I mean, real scsi uses /dev/sd*
> *right now*, and changing this to /dev/disk* will break just everything,
> not only people using IDE.

If people would like their disks to appear in /dev/disk/ by label or
whatever just send Greg some udev rules for it. It isnt a kernel problem
what it is called just some of the things around partitions

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