Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 2 Feb 2006 10:54:05 +0100 | From | Martin Mares <> | Subject | Re: CD writing in future Linux (stirring up a hornets' nest) |
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Hello!
> Is there any reason why the people with small PCs should dominate the > people with big machines? > > If you use /dev/hd*, you loose control after you add more than ~ 6-10 disks.
And this is why the current Linux naming scheme (udev etc.) gives you the possibility to use both types of names.
When I have a single CD writer, it's silly to have to think about where exactly it is connected. I refer to it as /dev/cdrw and everything is easy.
When I have multiple writers, I start to care about more -- but usually it's still better to avoid using bus addresses (they are not too stable -- after changing disks, I often end up with connecting my 2 CDWR's to different controllers) and use udev to maintain stable naming. I use /dev/cdrom-upper and /dev/cdrom-lower, which are assigned based on manufacturer and serial number.
This is even easier to remember with a big amount of hardware :-)
And, which is more important, this scheme works for everything -- drives, mice, network interfaces and so on.
I don't see any reason why cdrecord on Linux should invent a different naming scheme, especially as nobody has so far demonstrated any of its advantages.
Have a nice fortnight -- Martin `MJ' Mares <mj@ucw.cz> http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mj/ Faculty of Math and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep., Earth MIPS: Meaningless Indicator of Processor Speed. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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