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

[Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>]

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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bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
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