Re: mounting by wedge name

[David Brownlee <abs%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Thu, 12 Mar 2009, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 05:02:09PM -0500, David Young wrote:
> > IIUC, the MBR method matches with higher priority than BSDLABEL,
> > and BSDLABEL matches with higher priority than GPT.  Does it help to add
> > options DKWEDGE_METHOD_BSDLABEL and DKWEDGE_METHOD_MBR to the kernel
> > configuration?
>
> No, because this will *still* cause existing partitions to be matched
> by 'dk' units instead of (for example) 'wd' units, which will cause
> existing systems to fail to boot -- though in a way which is at least
> perhaps possible to recover from using single-user mode, unlike the
> issue with the GPT method discovering an irrelevant and unused GPT
> table in the alternate location.

        Could the system expose any devices found by DKWEDGE_METHOD_BSDLABEL
        additionally as wd/sd devices? That could provide compatability...

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