Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 23:17:42 -0400
From: Lee Trager <Lee@PicturesInMotion.net>
Subject: Re: /dev/sd*
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To: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: Gabor Gombas <gombasg@sztaki.hu>, Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>,
       Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
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Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Gabor Gombas 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 :)
>
>     Jeff
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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.
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