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

Miles Bader
2004-02-25T02:01:45Z

Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org> writes:
> 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

The (BSDish) xx0a convention is arguably better anyway (because the
various parts of the name split naturally along the letter-digit
boundaries); I never quite figured out why linux used the convention it
does for disks.

[Of course consistency generally wins out over niceness, but where
consistency isn't an option...]

-Miles
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