Date: Mon, 1 Dec 1997 01:28:40 -0800 (PST) From: Alex <garbanzo@hooked.net> To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: detecting devfs from userland? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971201012724.270B-100000@zippy.dyn.ml.org> In-Reply-To: <199712010826.BAA04800@usr07.primenet.com>
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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
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