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Subject: Re: Larger dev_t
To: torvalds@transmeta.com (Linus Torvalds)
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 03:19:02 +0100 (BST)
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> Exactly. It's just that for historical reasons, I think the major for
> "disk" should be either the old IDE or SCSI one, which just can show more
> devices. That way old installers etc work without having to suddenly start
> knowing about /dev/disk0.

They will mostly break. Installers tend to parse /proc/scsi and have fairly
complex ioctl based relationships based on knowing ide v scsi.

/dev/disc/ is a little un-unix but its clean



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