On Tue, 16 Oct 2007, Matthew Wilcox wrote:the only one of these that I would find unexpected would be the one on the motherboard. why is this any different from the external enclosures? they have always appeared as the type of device that connects them to the motherboard, (and even with SCSI, there are some controllers that don't generate sdX devices) the driver for the controller is what has historicly determined what the device appears as to the system. an example of this is the 3ware driver that is a SCSI drive but the drives attached to the card are IDE drives. another example is the I2O drivers (which give you access to the Raid array and to the individual drives, in different namespaces). while I may disagree with some of the selections that have been made (the 3ware has always seemed odd to me for example) it's pretty simple to figure out. but in any case, historicly IDE (PATA) and SATA drives have been handled differently, IDE drives have had fixed device names based on how they are connected, SATA devices have had 'order found' device names from the SCSI heritige. mixing the two types into one namespace requires changing one or the other. while I would love to see SATA gain hardware path dependant names I'm not holding my breath, but I hate to loose the predictable nameing (even if the names change) for the IDE drives. David Lang -
