Date: Fri, 02 Oct 1998 23:34:03 +0100 From: Dom Mitchell <dom@myrddin.demon.co.uk> 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) Message-ID: <E0zPDlz-0000EJ-00.qmail@myrddin.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: dan@math.berkeley.edu's message of "Thu, 1 Oct 1998 02:17:22 -0700 (PDT)" References: <199810010917.CAA28131@math.berkeley.edu>
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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
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