Subject: Re: Dynamic disk naming
To: Ed Symanzik <zik@enoch.cl.msu.edu>
From: Chris G Demetriou <Chris_G_Demetriou@LAGAVULIN.PDL.CS.CMU.EDU>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 03/17/1995 23:34:29
>   The dynamic disk naming (first disk found is sd0, second is sd1) is a 
> nice thought but it causes more trouble than it solves.  Right now my 
> boot disk is SCSI ID 1.  If I add a disk at ID 0, I can't boot because 
> fstab is suddenly pointing to the wrong disk.  In fact, that's probably 
> a security hole.

there's been a way to explicitly configure disk <-> SCSI ID mappings
since just a few weeks after the NetBSD project was started.  (i'd
guess that it was in _all_ releases, including 0.8, but i forget the
exact dates.)

If you're misconfiguring your system, that's neither our fault nor our
problem.  8-)


chris