Hi Johan, Thank you for the info. They are quite helpful. It seems like I have to read quite some documents on the same things I have been used to work with on Linux and FreeBSD ...
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 6:04 AM, Johan Beisser <j...@caustic.org> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 8:42 PM, Song Li <lis...@stanford.edu> wrote: > >> For the mount device: what's the device naming convention and the >> rationale behind it? I do not think it's a good idea to search through >> all the device and find out the device name. Linux and FreeBSD use >> slightly different convention but they both make sense to me. What >> about OpenBSD? > > Read intro(4), sd(4), wd(4) and disklabel(5)/disklabel(8). > > The naming comes from the driver itself: sd is scsi disk, wd is > "WD100x compatible hard disk driver." It depends on the upper level > driver to determine the device name. > > The 'r' prefix, "rsd0" for example, is the raw device. It's rare > you'll need to access it, but it does happen occasionally.
