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Hi all

I usually use FreeBSD, where disks are called adXsYZ, where X stands for
the disk number, Y for the slice number and Z for the disklabel letter.

I also know how NetBSD (and OpenBSD) name disks, with wdXY, where X is
the disk number and Y the disklabel letter.

IMHO, FreeBSD naming is much more powerful and with a better design.
In NetBSD I haven't found any way to mount my linux home partition,
which is ad0s9 in FreeBSD and hda9 in linux. Maybe I have to hack the
disklabel to add this partition? Weird.

Why NetBSD does not adopt the FreeBSD naming scheme? Or maybe redesign
it? I personally like the wd* naming if you only have _one_ disklabel
and _one_ slice (i.e. my firewall disks). But when you have several
partitions/slices, this becomes messy.

So... will NetBSD at any point change this? Why/why not?

Thanks!

--=20
La ignorancia es la felicidad.

Julio Merino (Slink) <juli@merino.net>

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