Re: Semi up to date JOBS list

From: Alex Buell (alex.buell@tahallah.clara.co.uk)
Date: Wed Jun 14 2000 - 05:08:45 EST

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On Tue, 13 Jun 2000 23:35:02 -0700 Wed, 14 Jun 00 11:18:53 BST, you
wrote:

>> 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...)
>
>There is also the option of using a more hierarchial scheme, like
>/dev/sr/d0/p0.

This would be a good idea. With the LVD SCSI-2 stuff, we can have up
to 15 devices per channel - hence the numbering scheme would be much
more benefical to those of us using a lot of SCSI disks. I really do
think that /dev/sd[a-z] have had its day.

Cheers,
Alex.

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