Re: DNS-like idea for SCSI (NIS+ maybe)
On Sat 21 August 2004 21:17, Albert Cahalan wrote:
> On Sat, 2004-08-21 at 17:19, Lourens Veen wrote:
> > On Sat 21 August 2004 18:06, Albert Cahalan wrote:
> That makes "dd if=/dev/FancyName" work, and in fact
> is exactly what the Linux "udev" program sets up.
> The udev programs discovers devices by looking in
> the /sys filesystem when the system boots or when
> a hot-plug event happens. Then udev looks at the
> device (model, size, serialnum, and much more) to
> match it with a device that I've defined.
>
> It won't make "dd if=FancyName" work unless I put a
> symlink in every damn directory. I really don't mind
> having to use "/dev/", but I'd hate to have some
> programs needing it (basically everything) and some
> other programs (cdrecord at least) being different.
> It's nice to have a consistant user interface.
Well, on Linux 2.6 you can use ATA:/dev/hdx IIRC.
> The nice thing about using device files or drive letters
> is that nobody has to change all the other programs
> to match. Only cdrecord would need to change, and the
> changes are pretty easy.
But it would make cdrecord itself inconsistent across platforms. It
just depends on how you look at it.
Lourens
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