Re: [RFC] devfs API

Helge Hafting
2002-11-12T10:50:31Z

Rudmer van Dijk wrote:

>
> from a user point of view it is better to keep it because it could really
> simplify a users life except ide should be just in discs as hdX and not as
> /dev/ide/hostN/busX/targetY/lunZ/disc ...

Use /dev/discs if that's what you like. The /dev/ide/hostN...
alternative is there for a reason though.

If you have, say 3 ide controllers and remove a disk
from the second one then disks on the third is renumbered
if they're in /dev/discs. The ones in /dev/ide/host2/...
stays put.

Desktop machines may not need all that with one disk only,
but it is useful for servers using IDE drives.

Helge Hafting