Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 11 Apr 2003 12:38:49 -0700 | From | "Kevin P. Fleming" <> | Subject | Re: [ANNOUNCE] udev 0.1 release |
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Joel Becker wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 11:31:28AM -0700, Kevin P. Fleming wrote: > >>- if any partitions are found, they are registered with the kernel using >>device-mapper ioctls >>- because these new "mapped sections" of the drive are _also_ usable block >>devices in their own right, they generate hotplug events > > > In reality, we need /dev/disk0 for disks, and /dev/part0 for > partitions, and /dev/lv0 for logical volumes from the LVM. There's > going to be a war over this naming, and that's why this is hard. > > Joel >
No doubt. And then you get into the situation where the devices themselves have names and/or UUIDs, and you want that to be incorporated into the device name. As it stands today, the only way to achieve that is pass that information to device-mapper so it can create devices with those names.
Personally, I wouldn't be upset if _all_ "physical volumes" (meaning an accessible block devices or portion thereof) appeared under /dev/volume/... Even logical volumes could be done that way, since they have names as well. I don't really see the need to have "whole disks", "partitions" and other types of volumes in separate directories under /dev, but then I may be way off base with the rest of the world wants to do :-)
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