Re: DevFS holy war
On Tue, 6 Nov 2001 20:29, Thomas Zimmerman wrote:
> On 06-Nov 04:38, Erich Schubert wrote:
> > > Clearer. But I can't really agree that
> > > /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part3 (your example) is better than
> > > /dev/hda3. For one thing, IDE doesn't even have luns.
> >
> > Who cares that ide (currently?) doesn't have luns?
> > scsi has, and i like doing s/scsi/ide/ without having to remember
> > cryptic things like hda
> > or look at the cd drives.
> > Novice users will probably NOT know which device they attached their
> > cdrom onto. Having /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /dev/cdroms/cdrom1 etc. is EASY.
> > Btw: you don't have to use /dev/ide, you can just use /dev/discs i
> > think. You don't have to care about ide vs. scsi then.
> > Maybe this is a devfsd feature though.
> > Devfsd does also provide compatibility for those preferring the old
> > names; i for myself don't need them any more.
> > /dev/discs/disc0/part1 isn't too hard to enter...
>
> Yes, not too hard, but it's Dumb. A device namespace (which devFS wants to
> be) should list whats there in a flat space; eg "ls /dev" should show all
> dev entries.
The default configuration of the devfsd package does just that. What more do
you want?
> This is why current /dev doesn't work really; device files are
> there even if the device isn't. Never mind that even with devFS "ls -r
> /dev" shows huge amounts of crap. What was wrong with hd[ab...yz][123..89]?
Install devfsd with the default config and you get that.
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