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? ... ).

Stefan

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