Subject: Re: Wedge aliases
To: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@shagadelic.org>
From: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@netbsd.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 10/03/2004 18:31:57
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On Sun, Oct 03, 2004 at 04:17:37PM -0700, Jason Thorpe wrote:
>=20
> On Oct 1, 2004, at 5:16 PM, Bill Studenmund wrote:
>=20
> >The problem I'm seeing is that with Apple partition map support, we=20
> >will
> >want to add wedges named according to the APM partition name. However
> >systems were all set up to use the 'a' through 'h' type names (sd0a,=20
> >wd2h,
> >etc.).
>=20
> My intent is for the use of "sd0a" etc. type names to go away, and=20
> eventually be totally unsupported.

Oh, I agree with that. I'm thinking more of what we do in the transition.=
=20
I think the first release that uses wedges will need to support "sd0a"=20
type names or aliases, just so admins can update w/o _too_ much trouble.

Take care,

Bill

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