From owner-freebsd-current  Thu Oct  1 02:17:47 1998
Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG>
Received: (from majordom@localhost)
          by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA16232
          for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 1 Oct 1998 02:17:47 -0700 (PDT)
          (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG)
Received: from math.berkeley.edu (math.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.183.94])
          by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA16225
          for <current@FreeBSD.ORG>; Thu, 1 Oct 1998 02:17:39 -0700 (PDT)
          (envelope-from dan@math.berkeley.edu)
Received: (from dan@localhost)
	by math.berkeley.edu (8.8.7/8.8.7) id CAA28131;
	Thu, 1 Oct 1998 02:17:22 -0700 (PDT)
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1998 02:17:22 -0700 (PDT)
From: dan@math.berkeley.edu (Dan Strick)
Message-Id: <199810010917.CAA28131@math.berkeley.edu>
To: current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: MAKEDEV Support for sd and st Devices (was: time for some new man pages)
Cc: dan@math.berkeley.edu
Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Precedence: bulk
X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG

> Solaris uses /dev/rmt/N for tape devices.

Solaris-2 still supports the Solaris-1 compatibility device name links
(i.e. sd0, st0, etc.) and the installation of these links is still the
default in at least the SPARCitechture side of the OS.

I won't defend Solaris-2 device naming conventions.
However, consider the truly horrible real names of the special
files in the Solaris-2 /devices directory.  Then count your blessings.

For those of you lucky enough to not know, on a Solaris-2 system
/dev/sd0a is a symbolic link to dsk/c0t3d0s0 which in turn points to
../../devices/io-unit@f,e0200000/sbi@0,0/dma@0,81000/esp@0,80000/sd@3,0:a.

/dev/da0s1a doesn't sound quite so bad any more.

Dan Strickl
dan@math.berkeley.edu

To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message