Re: devfs - why not ?

Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl
Fri, 14 Apr 2000 04:23:03 +0200 (MET DST)


> At some point people are going to realize that all the hacky magic that
> has to happen before they can access devices sanely is far uglier than
> /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s3, and this insanity will be trashbinned....

But /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s3 does not describe a disk - it encodes a controller.

A few days ago I had to do some testing of a large disk on a
different IDE controller. After moving the cable its name changed
from hdc to hde but its partitions mounted on the same directories
as before.

/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s3 does not suffice.

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