Jan Engelhardt wrote: >>>> 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 > Actually that does make more sense then using disk. So I guess we're back to square one. Personally I don't think its that big of a deal, all you have to do is change fstab and grub or lilo. My main concern is for the less advanced Linux users. - 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
