>>> AFAIR long ago Linus said he'd like just one major number (and thus only >>> one naming scheme) for every disk in the system; with /dev/sd* we're now >>> getting there. >> >> Yep. /dev/disk is a long term goal :) >> >I agree with Adrian, users are going to get confused if their devices >are named something different once they switch to this new interface. So >if we're going to confusing them why not just take the big leap and >switch it over to /dev/disk? It seems to make more sense then to have >all IDE and SATA users use /dev/sda for awhile only to down the road >have to to switch to /dev/disk. In the process, we can rename the then-"generic disk" (scsi ide whatever) back to "hd*" since that actually expands to Hard Disk. (If I would have known a lot earlier about Linux I would have proposed "id*" for the IDE disks.) Jan Engelhardt -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
