Re: Semi up to date JOBS list

From: Jens Axboe (axboe@suse.de)
Date: Tue Jun 13 2000 - 18:50:25 EST


On Tue, Jun 13 2000, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> > Personally I like the /dev/sr* names and /dev/sra1 looks cleaner than
> > /dev/scda1 (not to mention /dev/scdd1, which is just plain confusing).
> >
>
> Are you sure you want /dev/sra1 and not /dev/sr1a or /dev/scd1a (since
> the standard names right now are /dev/sr1 or /dev/scd1)?

Well for consistency I like /dev/sra1 (first CD-ROM, first partiton)
as it is similar to existing disk naming.

> Either way we need to be pretty adamant about consistency for this one,
> we currently have a bit of a mess that even predates my being "device
> registrar." These messes don't go away.

Nod

-- 
* Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
* SuSE Labs

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