From owner-freebsd-current Fri Oct 2 15:36:52 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA17080 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:36:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from myrddin.demon.co.uk (myrddin.demon.co.uk [158.152.54.180]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA17052 for ; Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:36:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dom@myrddin.demon.co.uk) Received: from localhost (myrddin.demon.co.uk) [127.0.0.1] by myrddin.demon.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 1.92 #1) id 0zPDlz-0000EJ-00; Fri, 2 Oct 1998 23:34:03 +0100 To: dan@math.berkeley.edu (Dan Strick) Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: MAKEDEV Support for sd and st Devices (was: time for some new man pages) References: <199810010917.CAA28131@math.berkeley.edu> From: Dom Mitchell In-Reply-To: dan@math.berkeley.edu's message of "Thu, 1 Oct 1998 02:17:22 -0700 (PDT)" X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/XEmacs 20.4 - "Emerald" Date: Fri, 02 Oct 1998 23:34:03 +0100 Message-Id: Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG dan@math.berkeley.edu (Dan Strick) writes: > 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. Don't be so hard on them... When you have an E10000 with a couple of hundred disks hanging off of about 6 controllers, it can be quite a blessing in actually locating your hardware! Stuff under /devices was never intended to be for human consumption. -Dom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message