Date: Wed, 19 Apr 1995 14:58:21 +0500 (GMT+0500) From: "Serge A. Babkin" <babkin@hq.icb.chel.su> To: julian@freefall.cdrom.com (Julian Elischer) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: [DEVFS] your opinions sought! Message-ID: <199504190958.OAA12839@hq.icb.chel.su> In-Reply-To: <199504190519.WAA06359@freefall.cdrom.com> from "Julian Elischer" at Apr 18, 95 10:19:33 pm
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> I am about ready to let people hack at devfs.
> but one thing I'm not sure about:
>
> what is a good way for the devfs to appear?
>
> I personally favour something hierachical,
> such as:
>
> /devices/disks/sd0/all
^^^^^^^^
Isn't it too long ? One of things I like in Unix is that the
often used commands and directories have short 2- or 3-letter name.
It's only my IMHO so you obviously may ignore it.
> /devices/disks/sd0/FAT/all /* I suppose it could be called C: */
> /devices/disks/sd0/BSD/all
^^^
What if we have 2 BSD parititons? I'm able to point at least one reason
for doing that. It's convenient if I have the system on the 1st partition
and archieves, extended utilities and other thigs like these on the 2nd
partition. Really I have DOS on the same drive and sometimes I need to have
a lot of DOS space or to install temporary some other operating system. In
such case I merely backup my 2nd BSD partiton, remove it, intstall
what-is-needed, use it, remove what-is-not-needed-more and restore my
2nd partition. I don't have to reinstall the whole system, I just need
to add a filesystem. Really I used this strategy with SCO and I have
installed FreeBSD for the first time in a "temporary space" of such kind.
So probably it will be better to have additional level of directories
/devices/disks/sd0/BSD/1/all
or names like
/devices/disks/sd0/BSD-1/all
Serge Babkin
! (babkin@hq.icb.chel.su)
! Headquarter of Joint Stock Commercial Bank "Chelindbank"
! Chelyabinsk, Russia
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