Date: Fri, 21 Apr 1995 20:17:01 +0200 (MET DST) From: Andreas Klemm <andreas@knobel.gun.de> To: davidg@Root.COM Cc: bde@zeta.org.au, julian@ref.tfs.com, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: [DEVFS] your opinions sought! Message-ID: <199504211817.UAA01523@knobel.GUN.de> In-Reply-To: <199504191017.DAA00268@corbin.Root.COM> from "David Greenman" at Apr 19, 95 03:17:04 am
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> >>I personally have always prefered the flat scheme of /dev (with possible
> >>exceptions for /dev/fd/*). This is a religious issue, I have spoken my
> >>religion.
> >
> >I like it fairly flat. There certainly shouldn't be subdirectories for
> >pieces of one device.
>
> I agree with Bruce. I would have agreed with Rod, but the simple fact is
> that our /dev directory is getting very large and bloated, and this will only
> get worse. Perhaps /dev/disks/* and /dev/ttys/*, etc, might be a way to
> organize things (in other words, by device class). I prefer to not minimize
> the number of levels as much as possible, while still providing some
> organization.
If you want to group the devices, so that a listing of /dev
doesn't get too long, why not taking Sun's / SVR4's naming
scheme ? It's something like a standard in the Unix market.
6 /dev/sad
34 /dev/dsk
0 /dev/fd
98 /dev/pts
34 /dev/rdsk
50 /dev/rmt
2 /dev/swap
6 /dev/term
4 /dev/fbs
2 /dev/printers
260 /dev/md/dsk
260 /dev/md/rdsk
524 /dev/md
6 /dev/cua
2 /dev/isdn
6 /dev/sound
1526 /dev
block devices = dsk, raw devices = rdsk
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s1
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s2
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s3
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s4
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s5
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s6
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s7
/dev/dsk/c0t1d0s0
/dev/dsk/c0t1d0s1
/dev/dsk/c0t1d0s2
/dev/dsk/c0t1d0s3
/dev/dsk/c0t1d0s4
/dev/dsk/c0t1d0s5
/dev/dsk/c0t1d0s6
/dev/dsk/c0t1d0s7
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