Subject: Re: wedges and what does that mean?
To: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@netbsd.org>
From: Thor Lancelot Simon <tls@rek.tjls.com>
List: current-users
Date: 09/07/2006 13:46:18
On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 10:43:28AM -0700, Bill Studenmund wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 09:58:54AM +0200, Pavel Cahyna wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 10:31:08AM -0700, Bill Studenmund wrote:
> > > The up-shot is that we need a way to rename and re-minor-number devices. 
> > > Combine that with a daemon that keeps state in userland, and we force 
> > > wedges to come back with the same minor # as before.
> > 
> > The point is, we don't have such thing yet. Shouldn't we delay migrating
> > to wedges?
> 
> No, as we'll never get it if we keep delaying.

I cannot believe you seriously mean to suggest that it is worth breaking
operation as NFS server in a severe way to avoid further delay migrating
to wedges.  Is that really what you mean?

Thor