Re: Device naming???

David Ford (david@kalifornia.com)
Wed, 21 Jul 1999 19:10:50 -0700


already done. use devfs.

-d

[...]

> How hard/bad would it be to make SUN style naming such as
> /dev/c0t1d0s0 and such work for /etc/fstab, lilo and such? This could
> make life easier and also safer. If you loose a scratch disk, it might
> not mount your backup disk over it and have a cron-job clean your
> backup files out for scratch space...

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