Re: UUIDs (and devfs and major/minor numbers)
Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
Fri, 18 Jun 1999 20:44:02 +1000
Stephen Frost writes:
> On Fri, 18 Jun 1999, Richard Gooch wrote:
>
> > I don't see how a hardware-based name like
> > /kernel/devices/pci/adapecc2980_0/... is any better than one that
> > includes the host#, bus# and so on.
>
> I've got three controllers in my system, a AMI Megaraid, a
> BusLogic 928D (IIRC), and a Adaptec 2940, sure would be nice to know right
> off the bat which controller is c0, which is c1, which is c2. I could
> probably figure it out from boot messages, but I could certainly see it
> nice to have the info more easily accessable, or even in a 'df' command.
> (Some others might not like that, but then, that's a choice they can make..)
> Oh, and don't forget my zip drive as well, but that's a little
> easier to tell, since it's only got one drive on it. :) Of course, without
> devfs to tell me there is only one device there, it's kind of a pain to
> figure out which drive it is. :) (/dev/sdj, IIRC)
It would be absolutely awful to present these huge device names like:
/kernel/devices/pci/adapecc2980_0/...
appear in a df output. It is just far too verbose.
Regards,
Richard....
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