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AFAIR long ago Linus said he'd like just one major number (and thus only
one naming scheme) for every disk in the system; with /dev/sd* we're now
getting there.

Yep.  /dev/disk is a long term goal :)

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I agree with Adrian, users are going to get confused if their devices
are named something different once they switch to this new interface. So
if we're going to confusing them why not just take the big leap and
switch it over to /dev/disk? It seems to make more sense then to have
all IDE and SATA users use /dev/sda for awhile only to down the road
have to to switch to /dev/disk.

The reason, in my opinion anyway, is that not all the word is IDE now,
and it has been this way for a long time.  I mean, real scsi uses /dev/sd*
*right now*, and changing this to /dev/disk* will break just everything,
not only people using IDE.

Some people already went through this when devfs hit the scene, and once again
when it left the scene. Should be practiced now :)


Jan Engelhardt
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