From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Dec 1 01:27:51 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id BAA23526 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 1 Dec 1997 01:27:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from zippy.dyn.ml.org (garbanzo@spain-16.ppp.hooked.net [206.169.228.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id BAA23520 for ; Mon, 1 Dec 1997 01:27:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from garbanzo@hooked.net) Received: from localhost (garbanzo@localhost) by zippy.dyn.ml.org (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id BAA00455 for ; Mon, 1 Dec 1997 01:28:40 -0800 (PST) X-Authentication-Warning: zippy.dyn.ml.org: garbanzo owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 1 Dec 1997 01:28:40 -0800 (PST) From: Alex X-Sender: garbanzo@zippy.dyn.ml.org To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: detecting devfs from userland? In-Reply-To: <199712010826.BAA04800@usr07.primenet.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 1 Dec 1997, Terry Lambert wrote: > > I think people expect to find their disk listed as: /dev/foobar3 > > not as /dev/disk/scsi3/unit3/lun2/partion4 > > Don't you mean /dec/foobar3a? > > I think it's just as cryptic... you're just biased by what you are used to > seeing... take your average user (which means your average Windows user) > and it's just as cryptic either way. Yet all together not nearly as cryptic as Solaris/Sun's device scheme, and disk slice scheme. - alex