From owner-freebsd-current Sat Dec 11 17:31:56 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mail-01.cdsnet.net (mail-01.cdsnet.net [206.107.16.35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DA56B14BF2 for ; Sat, 11 Dec 1999 17:31:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mrcpu@internetcds.com) Received: (qmail 3500 invoked from network); 12 Dec 1999 01:31:48 -0000 Received: from schizo.cdsnet.net (204.118.244.32) by mail.cdsnet.net with SMTP; 12 Dec 1999 01:31:48 -0000 Date: Sat, 11 Dec 1999 17:31:08 -0800 (PST) From: Jaye Mathisen X-Sender: mrcpu@schizo.cdsnet.net To: Lyndon Nerenberg Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADSUP: wd driver will be retired! In-Reply-To: <199912112148.dBBLmCQ85894@orthanc.ab.ca> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 11 Dec 1999, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote: > Or worse, on a file server where you lose a low-numbered disk, not > only does that one go away, but everything higher numbered loses as > well. This "feature" does nothing other than introduce a gratuitous Amen to this. If the default kernel or GENERIC shipped with the disks wired, it would be so much nicer. NT generally gets this one right, once you assign letters to partition, they tend to stick. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message