From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 28 Feb 2003 07:38:54 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 28 Feb 2003 07:38:54 -0500 Received: from hermine.idb.hist.no ([158.38.50.15]:12553 "HELO hermine.idb.hist.no") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Fri, 28 Feb 2003 07:38:53 -0500 Message-ID: <3E5F5B1F.5050801@aitel.hist.no> Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 13:50:39 +0100 From: Helge Hafting Organization: AITeL, HiST User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020623 Debian/1.0.0-0.woody.1 X-Accept-Language: no, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Adam J. Richter" CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Patch: 2.5.62 devfs shrink References: <200302280314.TAA11682@baldur.yggdrasil.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Adam J. Richter wrote: > Tangential note: > > For what it's worth, my preference would be to change from > /dev/discs/disc0/part1 to /dev/disk/0/part1, but I think it would Yes, that is nice and short. There is no need for the disc0 part, we know it is a disk because it is in /dev/disk. > probably do more harm than good to try to coordinate such a change > with switching devfs. If you want to try to make a change where Well, I wouldn't mind a disc->disk transition. It seems to mee there aren't that many devfs users yet so I don't think it'll be that much of a problem. > people will eventually have to update their systems, I think it would > probably make more sense to survey existing devfs naming practices and > try to come up with some recommendations harmonize them a bit. For > example, should the directory names be singular or plural (/dev/loop > or /dev/loops, /dev/disk or /dev/disks)? I would recommend signular > because it is less English-centric. Singular is nice, because we think about /dev/disk/4 (one particular disk) a lot more than we think about "the collection /dev/disks" Helge Hafting