Re: Larger dev_t

Alan Cox
2001-03-28T02:18:23Z

> Exactly. It's just that for historical reasons, I think the major for
> "disk" should be either the old IDE or SCSI one, which just can show more
> devices. That way old installers etc work without having to suddenly start
> knowing about /dev/disk0.

They will mostly break. Installers tend to parse /proc/scsi and have fairly
complex ioctl based relationships based on knowing ide v scsi.

/dev/disc/ is a little un-unix but its clean