[ On Friday, December 28, 2001 at 17:59:25 (+0000), David Brownlee wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: Why not change disk naming?
>
> 	They would be numbered from sd0 upwards. If you wanted to hardcode
> 	the numbers you would need to modify your kernel config. Not
> 	ideal, but possible.

All of my production systems run kernels with hard-wired device
assignments.  No, it's not ideal, but it's better than risking some kind
of hardware failure cascading into something even more damaging.
Hard-wiring device assignments in the kernel forces the driver
autoconfiguration code to fail safely.  I'd rather have the user-land
naming scheme always relate in some fixed way to the hardware (eg. in
the way SunOS-5.x and its ancestors do), but that's not even always
possible on some architectures.

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