Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2011 02:03:22 -0400 From: "Jason J. Hellenthal" <jhell@DataIX.net> To: Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org, Alexander Motin <mav@freebsd.org>, Alexander Best <arundel@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Why not just name the cam-ata devices the same as the old names? Message-ID: <20110427060322.GB88420@DataIX.net> In-Reply-To: <4DB7AED8.5070602@FreeBSD.org> References: <4DB70949.6090104@FreeBSD.org> <20110426182017.GA92471@freebsd.org> <4DB70F13.6060002@FreeBSD.org> <BANLkTikFHLaQ=Vrt9UhyJdo5ELm522OZjA@mail.gmail.com> <4DB759A1.4050201@FreeBSD.org> <20110427054218.GA88420@DataIX.net> <4DB7AED8.5070602@FreeBSD.org>
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--ftEhullJWpWg/VHq Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 10:51:20PM -0700, Doug Barton wrote: >On 04/26/2011 22:42, Jason J. Hellenthal wrote: >> The best possible thing you could use here is a GPT scheme for the disks >> to remain consistent across newfs's. But relying on GPT for all disks >> will not always work in situations where the disk also involves a >> operating system that does not support booting off of a GPT disk, like >> all of Windows XP and then Win7 > >Right. It's also not possible to move to gpt in existing installations=20 >where it is impossible (or impractical) to wipe the disk and start over=20 >again. Thanks for summarizing, and confirming my concerns. > >Fortunately, Alexander has already committed a transition mechanism that= =20 >should be transparent to the vast majority of our users. That will give=20 >us until 10.0 to adopt a sane labeling scheme. > Here's to looking forward! ;) --=20 Regards, (jhell) Jason Hellenthal --ftEhullJWpWg/VHq Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (FreeBSD) Comment: http://bit.ly/0x89D8547E iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJNt7GqAAoJEJBXh4mJ2FR+HQkH+wbTXyiMhwl8aOmDVsQawNP3 QfPT6vd2oZRA4zCU2RRMTnkfYPyUH1mzNZEUUXMOF/hrgXuW+UbFYP2+qWMiXuPs HaBSC1ebv+gt9R2fh/7fjtydIKd+f/+nhDXN3fL/JHNIMJjvGTHp2N3G7QQSQGrs JNDyQrIzj6YzA73w7SDtdAaiwNrVSwGe+b4zBJhHNWJ+cGau2SemUh/pDuSs7yfa dW4Z2S1qtDD7Y5QyM4B8eN9YPmLopui47jZHomOURowSTRQzfgePstbh1WIBh9dn nEI/gM0+VX12MbcR2ply9GYvu2AkdqvTYOrr+gucOTRij22YexOUc8Ggswu4TPE= =acK+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --ftEhullJWpWg/VHq--
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