Jens Axboe wrote:
> 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.
The problem that I see with using a letter for the device-instance field
is that after 26 we run out of letters.
Legacy says that harddisks are different and there are people with
more than 26 harddisks. What do they do?
Anyway, I would suggest that we move to using numbers for the
instances asap, and letters for the partition names (limited to
something like 16 for now anyway...)
Roger.
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