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While working on APM support, I realized we may want wedge aliases. I=20
think it's fine for an alias to be a devfs thing, a form of symlink to the=
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real wedge node.

The problem I'm seeing is that with Apple partition map support, we will=20
want to add wedges named according to the APM partition name. However=20
systems were all set up to use the 'a' through 'h' type names (sd0a, wd2h,=
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etc.).

Also, I was thinking that we could use aliases to handle cases where we=20
had mapped an msdos or Linux partition into a NetBSD disklabel in an MBR.=
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While we wouldn't have added wedges for these (as they aren't within the=20
NetBSD MBR wedge), we may still want something like "wd0j" to map to them.

My tentative thought is to add all the wedges, then try to add aliases. =20
That way, regardless of MBR order, when we create aliases, the original=20
wedge has already been added.

Thoughts?

Take care,

Bill

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