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

Bill Davidsen
2004-02-27T03:23:14Z

Andries Brouwer wrote:
> 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, ...

That sounds a LOT better. Of course mknod is your friend, and some of us
have sr0, sr1 etc, but that's our problem. I think one of the distros
does it that way, but not one I have here.

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