> > exactly how else do you make this change without being kludgy?  the
> > i386 method seems useful to me - i do believe 1 or 2 other ports
> > have copied that change... 
> Get us a devfs.

On recent Linux systems they have such a thing. It's a pain when you are
not aware of it: you crawl in single user, looking for a way to remount
the root R/W, and you spend half an hour looking for the root partition
device.

Once you know you have to start a service, that's ok, but it seems to me
that it introduce one more point of failure in the boot process. I hope
we will be able to keep some vital devs always available on the root
partition if we implement it some day.

-- 
Emmanuel Dreyfus
manu@netbsd.org