Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (1264 mails)

[Ilya Chernykh <anixxsus@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 13 September 2011 18:51:47 you wrote:

> > On the libata list they occasionally fantasize about a day when libata
> > will be a full fledged driver and not stuck underneath the scsi stack.
> >  It really doesn't belong there.  sata  does not truly follow the scsi
> > standard, so its a force fit.
> >
> > When they have their flights-of-fantasy discussions, they talk about
> > /dev/hd being a new universal name to represent all hard disks.
>
> That would be nice, but then again, is a sd card a "hard disk"?  

What is really important is not what interface it uses, but whether it is 
removanle.
All (or nearly all) USB drives are removable, that is they should not be shown 
as 
"hard drives" even if they are physically hard drives.

> Having 
> all storage devices with the same namespace of "sd*" is the main thing
> that is important, and is what we finally accomplished.  

Accomplished what? Cannong all devices by a name, reserved to SCSI devices
by the specification? Is this brutal breaking with the specification an 
achievement?

By the way, DVD and CD drives still called sr*.

> Changing the 2 
> characters to something else, as long as all devices use it, wouldn't be
> a big deal :)
>
> > Who knows if it will ever happen.  It's been in the todo list for 5+
> > years I think.
>
> I doubt it will, but it's nice to know the libata developers still are
> dreaming of it, thanks for letting us know.
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