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.
