From owner-freebsd-current Tue Sep 29 17:05:07 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA10896 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 29 Sep 1998 17:05:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from relay.nuxi.com (nuxi.cs.ucdavis.edu [128.120.56.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA10886 for ; Tue, 29 Sep 1998 17:05:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by relay.nuxi.com (8.8.8/8.6.12) id RAA29625; Tue, 29 Sep 1998 17:04:16 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <19980929170415.A29583@nuxi.com> Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 17:04:15 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: Studded , Terry Lambert Cc: Narvi , dan@math.berkeley.edu, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: time for some new man pages Reply-To: obrien@NUXI.com References: <199809282334.QAA12246@usr04.primenet.com> <361059E8.C1E28D68@dal.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <361059E8.C1E28D68@dal.net>; from Studded on Mon, Sep 28, 1998 at 08:54:16PM -0700 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 2.2.7-STABLE Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Keyid: 34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Terry Lambert wrote: > > Is there a compelling reason to rename the frigging things? > > Actually I was wondering that myself. :) > Doug I'm going to add a "ME THREE"! This is a gratuitous interface change. IMHO, FreeBSD sysadmins don't give a rats ass that DA => direct access and SA => sequential access. Why does the user need to think of their devices in this manner? Other than to confuse people, what benefit or extra capability did the name change give? Hell lets just go to the SVR4 model of cXtYdZsU. I'd really be interested in a survey about this change. I'm willing to bet that to most a SCSI disk is simply that a *S*CSI *D*isk. FreeBSD has now added yet one more incompatibility (or if you prefer, yet something different, aka NIH) to the Unix world. What ever happened to the policy of least supprise? -- -- David (obrien@NUXI.ucdavis.edu -or- obrien@FreeBSD.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message