Re: [PATCH] 2.6.2, Partition support for SCSI CDROM...

Andries Brouwer
2004-02-25T10:20:01Z

On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 05:09:06PM +0000, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 11:51:20AM -0500, Steven J. Hill wrote:

> > + * sr0 - first CDROM, whole disk
> > + * sr1 - first CDROM, first partition
> > + *
> > + * [...]
> > + *
> > + * sr16 - first CDROM, sixteenth partition
> > + * sr17 - second CDROM, whole disk
> > + * sr18 - second CDROM, first partition
>
> Umm... no. I suspect you mean:
>
> sr15 - first CDROM, fifteenth partition
> sr16 - second CDROM, whole disk
> sr17 - second CDROM, first partition
>
> But what a bad idea for device names. Why not
>
> sr0 whole disc
> sr0a ... sr0o partitions
> sr1, sr1a ... sr1o
>
> It's probably too late to be consistent with discs and call them
> sra, sra1, ... sra15
> srb, srb1, ... srb15

It is standard convention to use numerical suffixes to refer
to partitions, with a 'p' separator in case the full device
has a name ending in a digit.

So: sr0p1, ..., sr0p15, sr1p1, ...

Andries