On Mon, Nov 24, 2025 at 09:20:32AM +0100, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
Yes. That was the plan 20 years ago. For a while i had both names on SuSE. I don't know why /dev/scd* failed to persist.
Because as soon as dvd's came along the scd name was stupider than the sr name, and it was obvious to most people that switching again to sdvd was worse than just staying with sr. And, of course, scd was trying to solve a problem that didn't exist so it didn't have much of a lobby.
Digging in my dim memories ... It happened after Linux gave up the large unconditional collection of device files in favor of files which show up only if they have a drive attached.
I want to say it may have been some brilliant idea from the FHS folks.
