From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 26 19:05:01 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx2.freebsd.org (mx2.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38337106566B; Tue, 26 Apr 2011 19:05:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from 65-241-43-5.globalsuite.net (hub.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::36]) by mx2.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F1AB714E9AF; Tue, 26 Apr 2011 19:05:00 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <4DB7175C.6060408@FreeBSD.org> Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2011 12:05:00 -0700 From: Doug Barton Organization: http://SupersetSolutions.com/ User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD amd64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110319 Thunderbird/3.1.9 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Andrey V. Elsukov" References: <4DB70949.6090104@FreeBSD.org> <4DB70F97.1070809@FreeBSD.org> <4DB71311.7080203@FreeBSD.org> <4DB71654.5060008@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <4DB71654.5060008@FreeBSD.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.2 OpenPGP: id=1A1ABC84 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.org, Alexander Motin Subject: Re: Why not just name the cam-ata devices the same as the old names? X-BeenThere: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Filesystems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2011 19:05:01 -0000 On 04/26/2011 12:00, Andrey V. Elsukov wrote: > On 26.04.2011 22:46, Doug Barton wrote: >> If that plan proves successful what I'm thinking is that I can put some >> code in mergemaster on 9.0-RELEASE that checks for the old device names >> in /etc/fstab and suggests that the user change them to the new names. I >> don't generally like to give mergemaster specific knowledge of certain >> files, but there is precedent for doing so for changes like this, and as >> long as we are not relying on mergemaster to _fix_ the problem, I'm Ok >> with doing it that way. So I will stay tuned to see how this develops. > > mergemaster usually used a bit later than it can help, i mean that we > recommend run it after installing kernel and first reboot. Right, that's one reason I don't want mergemaster to be the solution for fixing this. Another is that not everyone uses it, and almost noone who uses freebsd-update uses it. To be clear about what I meant, assuming that there is some solution which allows users with the old adN entries to boot with the new cam-ata devices, mergemaster can detect this condition, and warn the user that they should update their fstab. hth, Doug -- Nothin' ever doesn't change, but nothin' changes much. -- OK Go Breadth of IT experience, and depth of knowledge in the DNS. Yours for the right price. :) http://SupersetSolutions.com/