What does the letter »r« stand for in /dev/sr0?

[Detlef Lechner]

Derek Broughton wrote:
> Detlef Lechner wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> what does the letter »r« stand for in /dev/sr0?
>> (/dev/scd0 is a link to /dev/sr0.)
> 
> Does it have to stand for anything?  

No, it does not have to. But people wuold learn and remember the name
more easily; the number of errors and mistakes would be less.

> Perhaps they were just out of ideas?

:-)

> It might, perhaps, be "raw", but that's just a WAG.

Hm, hm.

Detlef