Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 27 Jan 2006 09:00:27 +0100 | From | Jens Axboe <> | Subject | Re: CD writing in future Linux (stirring up a hornets' nest) |
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On Thu, Jan 26 2006, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > >You just want the device naming to reflect that. The user should not > >need to use /dev/hda, but /dev/cdrecorder or whatever. A real user would > >likely be using k3b or something graphical though, and just click on his > >Hitachi/Plextor/whatever burner. Perhaps some fancy udev rules could > >help do this dynamically even. > > And if you have multiple cdwriters? Then (cf. other posts) one has > /dev/cdrecorder0 /dev/cdrecrder1, etc. To me, that's just as bad as having > /dev/sg0 and /dev/sg1, because you don't have a clue at first sight what it > maps to.
/dev/plextorwriter and /dev/hpwriter or whatever, it's just naming.
> "ls -l"? Sure, if cdrecorder0 was a symlink, but it does not work when it's > not (= a block device in essence then). > And I'm sure there's an analog program to "ls" to find what sg0 maps to.
You expect the gui user to follow symlinks to find out?
-- Jens Axboe
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