Re: [PATCH] 2.6.2, Partition support for SCSI CDROM...

[Bill Davidsen]

Andries Brouwer wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 05:09:06PM +0000, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 11:51:20AM -0500, Steven J. Hill wrote:
>
>
> > > + *    sr0 - first CDROM, whole disk
> > > + *    sr1 - first CDROM, first partition
> > > + *
> > > + *    [...]
> > > + *
> > > + *    sr16 - first CDROM, sixteenth partition
> > > + *    sr17 - second CDROM, whole disk
> > > + *    sr18 - second CDROM, first partition
> >
> > Umm... no.  I suspect you mean:
> >
> > sr15 - first CDROM, fifteenth partition
> > sr16 - second CDROM, whole disk
> > sr17 - second CDROM, first partition
> >
> > But what a bad idea for device names.  Why not
> >
> > 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
>
>
> It is standard convention to use numerical suffixes to refer
> to partitions, with a 'p' separator in case the full device
> has a name ending in a digit.
>
> So: sr0p1, ..., sr0p15, sr1p1, ...

That sounds a LOT better. Of course mknod is your friend, and some of us 
have sr0, sr1 etc, but that's our problem. I think one of the distros 
does it that way, but not one I have here.

--
bill davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx>
  CTO TMR Associates, Inc
  Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979
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