Thread (5 messages) 5 messages, 3 authors, 2002-06-20

Re: [PATCH] /proc/scsi/map

From: Martin Dalecki <hidden>
Date: 2002-06-20 21:36:38
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Użytkownik Linus Torvalds napisał:
On Thu, 20 Jun 2002, Martin Dalecki wrote:
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/devices/disks/disk0 -> ../../pci0/00:02.0/02:1f.0/03:07.0/disk0
                 ^^^^^^^^^^ You notice the redundancy in naming here :-).

I'd rather have redundancy than have horrible names like just "0", thank
you very much.

It takes up no space, all the dentries are virtual anyway, and a dentry
embeds the storage for the first n characters (n ~16 or something like
that).

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Boah the chierachies are already deep enough. /devices/net/eth@XX
will cut it.

There is _no_ excuse for being terse.
Yes indeed:

ls 	DIR
cp 	COPY
mv      REANME
cat     TYPE

Note: the VMS stuff was even longer. You ever used the "shell" there?
Also, never EVER use special characters like "@" unless there is _reason_
to use them. I don't see any reason to make a filesystem look like perl.
The reaons is that it is making the splitup betwen the enumeration
and naming part very easy. Not just for scripts but for C code as well.
Numbers get user quite frequently for versioning as well.
And I tought the above should be mainly used by programs?
Please use sane names like "disknnn" over insane cryptographically secure
filesystem contents like "sd@nnn".
I'm so used to sd@ :-). Don't invent where you can borrow - or you will
go the esperanto way.

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