According to David Holland:
>
>The only problem I see would be retaining full backward compatibility
>with existing /dev naming, which might be a bit difficult -- but I
>don't hear a lot of people protesting that they really like it the way
>it is. :-)
>

You can always try what Sun do, symbolically link the compatiability
names to the new names.  Mind you, you need to make _all_ the tools
use the new naming scheme - unlike Sun.  On a Solaris 2 machine try
doing an "iostat -xtc" and see what disk naming scheme you get ;-)

-- 
Brett Lymn, Computer Systems Administrator, British Aerospace Australia
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