re: port-amd64/51216: Can't create wedges on a large (3TB) disk, gpt is ok but dkctl gives an error message

[matthew green <mrg%eterna.com.au@localhost>]

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From: matthew green <mrg%eterna.com.au@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
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    netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost, m33%tok715.net@localhost
Subject: re: port-amd64/51216: Can't create wedges on a large (3TB) disk, gpt is ok but dkctl gives an error message
Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2016 03:10:01 +1000

 Michael van Elst writes:
 > The following reply was made to PR port-amd64/51216; it has been noted b=
 y GNATS.
 > =
 
 > From: mlelstv%serpens.de@localhost (Michael van Elst)
 > To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
 > Cc: =
 
 > Subject: Re: port-amd64/51216: Can't create wedges on a large (3TB) disk=
 , gpt is ok but dkctl gives an error message
 > Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2016 16:28:54 +0000 (UTC)
 > =
 
 >  kre%munnari.OZ.AU@localhost (Robert Elz) writes:
 >  =
 
 >  > I wonder if now that wedges are becoming used more, and wdNx (and sdN=
 x)
 >  > thus used less, if perhaps we should start creating /dev/[sw]dN and
 >  > /dev/r[sw]dN as aliases of (or links to) /dev/[r][sw]dN[cd] (as appro=
 priate)
 >  > (ie /dev/wd1 is a link to /dev/wd1d on i386 (etc) or /dev/wd1c (on sp=
 arc etc))
 >  =
 
 >  =
 
 >  Maybe, but much of the confusion must have come from using commands in =
 the /dev
 >  directory. Tools like gpt interpret device names (e.g. wd0) and automat=
 ically
 >  select the raw device.... unless there is a file 'wd0' in the local dir=
 ectory.
 >  =
 
 >  That functionality should be changed. If you need a file in the local d=
 irectory
 >  it should be written like ./wd0.
 
 i like both of these ideas.
 
 - it avoids the accidental file creation in /dev =
 
 - it avoids odd errors when you have files called "wd0" lying around
   that aren't disks..
 
 
 .mrg.