Re: More persistent device names when using wedges & raidframe?

[Stephen Borrill <netbsd%precedence.co.uk@localhost>]

On Thu, 9 Dec 2010, Masao Uebayashi wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 09, 2010 at 08:30:07AM +0000, Michael van Elst wrote:
> > peter%kerwien.homeip.net@localhost (Peter Kerwien) writes:
> >
> > > the degraded raid since my previous device name was dk3, but now it is
> > > called dk2. So my entry in /etc/fstab is causing troubles during boot.
> >
> > > Is there a way to use UUID, labels or any other persitent device name
> > > instead?
> >
> > I have a patch to mount(8) that looks up the device name from
> > the wedge name, but people didn't like it.
> >
> > See http://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-userlevel/2010/10/17/msg004028.html
> > and following.
>
> Personally I like this to be checked in with XXX comments.  (I bet
> devfs will be never realized.)

Absolutely. My reading of that thread is that feedback was mainly 
positive, not "people didn't like it". We aren't going to hold up any 
other driver-related changes because of missing devfs.

--
Stephen