Hello, This is OT story from "real life" and it's still rolling.
A couple of days ago I was reading an article comparing Linux and Solaris driver models. This article was recommended by Sun as introductional reading for driver developers and was published on April 1 2005 at OpenSolaris.org site. While reading I noticed a factual error and felt really proud for myself, so I wrote a correction letter to the respected author: > Max, > > I was reading your article "Inside OpenSolaris: Introduction to > Solaris Drivers" at > > http://opensolaris.org/os/article/2005-03-31_inside_opensolaris__introduction_to_solaris_drivers/ > > When you're discussing differences between Linux and Solaris device > driver models you're stating: > "Linux uses the same names for devices regardless of their location > (and regardless of the hardware). For instance, Linux disks are > /dev/hda, /dev/hdb, etc., regardless of whether the disk is IDE or > SCSI. " > > Example you have used seems to me to be inaccurate: > 1. IDE disk on Linux named /dev/hdX, from other hand SCSI disks > are /dev/sdX. > 2. When talking about IDE disks, device names are determined by their > location/channel: > * hda - primary controller master > * hdb - primary controller slave > * hdc - secondary controller master > * hdd - secondary controller slave > This meens if I move, for example, disk from primary to secondary > controller, its device name will change. > > Alexander Indenbaum Max admitted an error, but his answer seemed not serious enough to me, so I wrote a sarcastic reply: >> On 3/17/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi, >> This mistake has been pointed out to me, but I have no easy way to >> amend the article. > > Strange opensolaris.org stroke me like well maintained site. > >> One other mistake which has been pointed out to me >> is that the ext file system is not extent-based. > > Have not read that article pearl yet. > >> I also expect that >> over time there will be things which change in both OSes... > > Well, maybe indeed it is not coincidence that your article is dated > April 1 :) > > Alexander > >> >> Thanks, >> max The strangest thing, Max answered to me today again as if he did not get it at all !!! He was asking why April 1 ? So I had to make it crystal clear: it is all about birds in state of art network technology: >On 3/19/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> The extent-based file system stuff is in a different article. >> And my comment about things changing in both OSes was also meant >> to refer to a different article. > > That sounds very interesting. Could you give me a link to this article? > >> So, what is it about the >> driver article that makes you think a publishing date of April 1 >> is not a coincidence? > > April 1 is a day that traditionally marked by publishing revolutionary > articles. Usually about birds in state of art network technology. > > Most famous are: > * RFC 1149 - Standard for the transmission of IP datagrams on avian carriers > http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1149.txt > * Why Google's patented PigeonRank™ works so well > http://www.google.com/technology/pigeonrank.html > > Alexander Picture yourself my anticipation for his reply :{) Alexander Indenbaum ================================================================To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
