From owner-freebsd-current Sat Dec 11 17:38:50 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mass.cdrom.com (castles535.castles.com [208.214.165.99]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D0EE1501B for ; Sat, 11 Dec 1999 17:38:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Received: from mass.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA00880; Sat, 11 Dec 1999 17:41:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199912120141.RAA00880@mass.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Lyndon Nerenberg Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADSUP: wd driver will be retired! In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 11 Dec 1999 14:48:12 MST." <199912112148.dBBLmCQ85894@orthanc.ab.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 11 Dec 1999 17:41:25 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > >>>>> "Dieter" == Dieter Rothacker writes: > > Dieter> Why would you want to define "correct" numbering the > Dieter> non-spread-out numbering? Or did I misunderstand you? I > Dieter> have all my disks as master drives on the channels. Now, > Dieter> when I hook up another disk for backup or maintenance > Dieter> purposes, my numbering is messed up. > > 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 > backwards-incompatibility. There is nothing wrong with the "old" scheme. > I've loathed this behaviour since it was introduced into SCSI/CAM, > and would rejoice at its removal. This is the usual poorly thought out argument, which fails to note that when you lose a disk you're already screwed due by /etc/fstab and the need to hard-mount local filesystems. The "right" solution is and has always been to name your disks and mount them by name. Once devfs is a reality, we'll be able to do just this. Until then, the problem's not really as bad as you make it out to be. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message