From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tejun Heo Subject: Re: /dev/sd* Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 18:19:14 +0900 Message-ID: <44E58612.1040607@gmail.com> References: <1155144599.5729.226.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20060809212124.GC3691@stusta.de> <1155160903.5729.263.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20060809221857.GG3691@stusta.de> <20060810123643.GC25187@boogie.lpds.sztaki.hu> <44DB289A.4060503@garzik.org> <44E3DFD6.4010504@PicturesInMotion.net> <44E42900.1030905@PicturesInMotion.net> <44E56804.1080906@bfh.ch> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from py-out-1112.google.com ([64.233.166.176]:6040 "EHLO py-out-1112.google.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751309AbWHRJTV (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Aug 2006 05:19:21 -0400 Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id n25so995880pyg for ; Fri, 18 Aug 2006 02:19:20 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Jan Engelhardt Cc: Seewer Philippe , Jeff Garzik , Gabor Gombas , Adrian Bunk , Alan Cox , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Jan Engelhardt wrote: >>> Less advanced users should use the upgrade tools their distribution >>> provides. >> And personally I think less advanced users will be very happy with >> /dev/disk (or /dev/hd). No more confusion wether to user /dev/hdx or >> /dev/sdx or whatever! > > Umm, hdx or sdx is a small impact. The real power of /dev/disk is that > not-so-technically minded users can go looking for their disk by its name > (or less frequently, by their address (e.g. USB drive)). Especially > important since any new disk discovered in the scsi layer gets the next > free slot. Desktop volume management stuff is already doing it. When I connect my ipod, it shows up as IPOD on my desktop regardless of which sd letter it gets. Also, recent distributions use LABEL= tricks to find out root and other partitions to mount on boot. The major/minor number and device name (which is determined by udev) aren't that important already and will become less of an issue as time passes. -- tejun