From owner-svn-src-head@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Apr 24 16:32:58 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: svn-src-head@freebsd.org Received: by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix, from userid 1033) id D46CA1065675; Sun, 24 Apr 2011 16:32:58 +0000 (UTC) Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2011 16:32:58 +0000 From: Alexey Dokuchaev To: Alexander Motin Message-ID: <20110424163258.GA32595@FreeBSD.org> References: <201104240858.p3O8wwqT024628@svn.freebsd.org> <4DB441B0.8020906@FreeBSD.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4DB441B0.8020906@FreeBSD.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Cc: svn-src-head@freebsd.org, "Bjoern A. Zeeb" , svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, Robert Watson Subject: Re: svn commit: r220982 - in head: . sys/amd64/conf sys/arm/conf sys/conf sys/i386/conf sys/ia64/conf sys/mips/conf sys/mips/malta sys/pc98/conf sys/powerpc/conf sys/sparc64/conf sys/sun4v/conf X-BeenThere: svn-src-head@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: SVN commit messages for the src tree for head/-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2011 16:32:58 -0000 On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 06:28:48PM +0300, Alexander Motin wrote: > What's about creating some kind of symlinks, it could be nice if it > worked, but I don't see the way to do it on disk(9) or GEOM layers > without breaking device's access counters and as result further random > problems. Speaking on Alexander's side, I'd want to mention that many of our users had been bitten by obscure adX naming during past years (largely due to ATA_STATIC_ID option which was probably useful back in times when there typically was only one IDE controller present in system, but leads to all sorts of weird ad4-6-8's in recent years) had already migrated to glabel or GPT labels, to avoid precisely the issues we're talking about here. ./danfe