Re: Congrats to Richard Gooch

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On Thu, Feb 17, 2000 at 03:37:34PM +0300, Khimenko Victor wrote:
> What should be done now is to clean up all stuff. Gooch done everything he
> can himself. Now when devfs is part of official kernel it's time to polish
> up devfs further. For example situation with ZIP drives does not look rig=
ht
> to me. When there are no zip disk in drive and module is not loaded there=
 are
> no /dev/ide/host0/bus1/target1/lun0/part4 . If I'll put zip disk in drive=
r and
> will try to mount it ide-floppy will be loaded and mounted. So far so goo=
d. The
> bad thing happens when I try to mount zip disk when there are NO zip disk=
 in
> drive. Then only /dev/ide/host0/bus1/target1/lun0/disc is created, not
> /dev/ide/host0/bus1/target1/lun0/part4 :-(( So even if I'll put zip disk =
in
> drive I can not mount it :-((

BTW I really like devfs, but the new names for mass storage are even uglier=
 then
the old ones ...
It really sucks to type "mkfs.ext /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1".

I'd prefer something like:
/dev/dsk/at0d0a
      |  |  | |
      |  |  | | BSD-like character for partition [a=3D1, b=3D2, ...]
      |  |  | d<devicenum (scsi-id for scsi, 0 for ide master, 1 for ide sl=
ave, ...)>
      |  | an two-character-prefix for the device-type (at for ata/ide, sc =
for scsi) and the bus number
      | directory /dev/dsk/ for all disks

I it is needed (and only _if_) there could be lX for lun x between dX and <=
partiotion character> like:
/dev/dsk/sc0d5l2a.

This would be much more readable (and typeable) without lose of functionali=
ty.

Christoph

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