>> I know you will hate this, but better now than later...
>>
>> UnixWare 7 has 5-part device names with a c0b0t0d0p0 format.
>> It is just like the new Linux ones, except for the fourth letter.
>>
>> Values of p are:
>>
>> 0 whole disk
>> 1 first PC partition
>> 2 second PC partition
>> 3 third PC partition
>> 4 fourth PC partition
>>
>> Although SCO stops there, notice how much their system is like the
>> new Linux system. It would be great to eliminate the inconsistency
>> while we still can.
>
> We went through this at the beginning of the year. IIRC the format
> you suggest was considered, but rejected for some reasons I don't
> fully recall just now.
At the beginning of the year, there was no example with a 5-part name.
We had Solaris and something else, both with 4-part names. Since we
needed the 5-part name anyway, we didn't worry about compatibility.
> Also, there are now too many people using it for these kinds of
> changes to be "painless". SCO will just have to change their
> system: we have the bigger market share ;-)
SCO is already shipping. How about a transitional config option?
It would let existing devfs users convert at their leisure,
and would be removed before the 2.4 kernel is released.
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