On Thu, Aug 10, 2000 at 08:54:34PM +0100, James Sutherland wrote:
> > of course `drive' has an unambiguous spelling.
>
> OK, just go into a shop and try buying a pack of 10 floppy drives, instead
> of 10 floppy disks <g>
which is another good reason for using `drive' instead of `dis[ck]'.
devfs is referring to the drive, not keeping track of each item of
removable media.
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