21 Aug
2021
21 Aug
'21
19:51
On 2021-08-21 1:27 p.m., Douglas McGarrett wrote:
On 8/21/21 3:05 PM, Knurpht-openSUSE wrote:
I am just curious as to what the reason was behind the decision to change the way drives are designated if they are NVMe, and if any other changes like that have been made?
AFAIK it's simply because these NVME SSDs are PCI devices, like for a while we had /dev/hda for an IDE device, /dev/sda for a SATA device.
This notation is clumsy. Someone should find a better notation--how about /dev/sfa where the f stands for "flat"? Or something similar.
In a rush, it might be easy to miss the difference between /dev/sda and /dev/sfa. Besides, what is wrong with naming a NVMe drive nvmenX? It's hardly difficult to type.