Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 10:01:50 +0200 (MEST)
From: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>
To: Lee Trager <Lee@PicturesInMotion.net>
cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>, 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
Subject: Re: /dev/sd*
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>>> 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 :)
>>
>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.

In the process, we can rename the then-"generic disk" (scsi ide whatever) 
back to "hd*" since that actually expands to Hard Disk.
(If I would have known a lot earlier about Linux I would have proposed 
"id*" for the IDE disks.)


Jan Engelhardt
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