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From: matthew green <mrg%eterna.com.au@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: port-amd64-maintainer%netbsd.org@localhost, gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost,
netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost, m33%tok715.net@localhost
Subject: re: port-amd64/51216: Can't create wedges on a large (3TB)
disk, gpt is ok but dkctl gives an error message
Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2016 03:10:01 +1000
Michael van Elst writes:
> The following reply was made to PR port-amd64/51216; it has been
noted b=
y GNATS.
> =
> From: mlelstv%serpens.de@localhost (Michael van Elst)
> To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
> Cc: =
> Subject: Re: port-amd64/51216: Can't create wedges on a large (3TB)
disk=
, gpt is ok but dkctl gives an error message
> Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2016 16:28:54 +0000 (UTC)
> =
> kre%munnari.OZ.AU@localhost (Robert Elz) writes:
> =
> > I wonder if now that wedges are becoming used more, and wdNx (and
sdN=
x)
> > thus used less, if perhaps we should start creating /dev/[sw]dN
and
> > /dev/r[sw]dN as aliases of (or links to) /dev/[r][sw]dN[cd] (as
appro=
priate)
> > (ie /dev/wd1 is a link to /dev/wd1d on i386 (etc) or /dev/wd1c
(on sp=
arc etc))
> =
> =
> Maybe, but much of the confusion must have come from using commands
in =
the /dev
> directory. Tools like gpt interpret device names (e.g. wd0) and
automat=
ically
> select the raw device.... unless there is a file 'wd0' in the local
dir=
ectory.
> =
> That functionality should be changed. If you need a file in the
local d=
irectory
> it should be written like ./wd0.
i like both of these ideas.
- it avoids the accidental file creation in /dev =
- it avoids odd errors when you have files called "wd0" lying around
that aren't disks..
.mrg.