On Fri, 21 Aug 1998, Stefan Grefen wrote:

> In message <Pine.LNX.4.02.9808202147500.14516-100000@feral-gw>  Matthew Jacob wrote:
> > > I strongly recommend deciding what you want to do about device naming
> > > before embarking on dynamic configuration.  It's really annoying when sd3a
> > > which has your root partition on it suddenly changes and becomes sd2a
> > > because one of the other disks did not come up.  And Wiring it down in the
> > > kernel config file is useless because, since it's a fully dynamic kernel,
> > > none of the devices are in the kernel config file.  
> > 
> > I've had a long standing projects, actually in the NetBSD projects
> > list, to do global device naming. Between WWN's and VPD and other
> > info, naming disks at least globally is the right thing to do.
> > 
> 
> Let do it NOW. Are there any objections (esp. from people deciding if it
> goes in the tree or not, charles? jason? Chris? ... ).
> 

Do we need to consider the complexity of remapping the root and swap
identifiers for the dynamic names?