From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Mar 18 05:13:45 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA00492 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Wed, 18 Mar 1998 05:13:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from pandora.hh.kew.com (root@kendra.ne.mediaone.net [24.128.94.182]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA00449 for ; Wed, 18 Mar 1998 05:13:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from software@kew.com) Received: from sonata.uucp.kew.com (sonata.hh.kew.com [192.168.203.135]) by pandora.hh.kew.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id IAA19184; Wed, 18 Mar 1998 08:13:15 -0500 (EST) Received: from kew.com by sonata.uucp.kew.com (UUPC/extended 1.12y) with UUCP for multiple addressees; Wed, 18 Mar 1998 08:13:15 -0500 Received: from kew.com by sonata.uucp.kew.com (UUPC/extended 1.12y) with ESMTP for multiple addresses; Wed, 18 Mar 1998 08:13:12 -0500 Message-ID: <350FC868.52809837@kew.com> Date: Wed, 18 Mar 1998 08:13:12 -0500 From: Drew Derbyshire - UUPC/extended software support Organization: Kendra Electronic Wonderworks, Stoneham, MA 02180 (http://www.kew.com) X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en]C-MOENE (WinNT; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Richard Wackerbarth CC: Scot Elliott , stable@FreeBSD.ORG, mike@smith.net.au Subject: Re: ATTENTION: Call for opinion re: root device naming change References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Richard Wackerbarth wrote: > However, the sample is EXTREMELY BIASED toward individuals who closely > track things. If this change gets into the distribution, I expect there > to be a significant number of users who get "bitten" by the same situation. I agree with this. It was assumed by at least one person that most 2.2.6 RELEASE installs would be fresh installs -- it is not reasonable to assume any such thing about about the _stable_ release. You don't subscribe to the Walnut Creek distribution just to smoke your hard drive every three months. Plan for the release, not the lunatic fringe (no matter what nice bunch of people we are, not mention vocal). Again, back it out. -ahd- -- Drew Derbyshire UUPC/extended e-mail: software@kew.com Telephone: 617-279-9812 UUPC/extended is "system crash" spelled sideways. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message