Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2009 13:08:32 +1000 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Cc: "Carlos A. M. dos Santos" <unixmania@gmail.com>, svn-src-head@freebsd.org, Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org>, src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r195534 - in head: etc/mtree include lib/libcam sbin/camcontrol share/man/man4 sys/cam sys/cam/ata sys/cam/scsi sys/conf sys/dev/advansys sys/dev/ahci sys/dev/aic7xxx sys/dev/amd sys/de... Message-ID: <200907131308.41598.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <4A5A98FA.3050208@samsco.org> References: <37131.1247214217@critter.freebsd.dk> <e71790db0907121809k3c66243fxd039fc67b41ab1d@mail.gmail.com> <4A5A98FA.3050208@samsco.org>
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--nextPart1487338.LL4kmf39c3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Mon, 13 Jul 2009, Scott Long wrote: > The only big downside to using the 'da' device moniker for SATA disks > is that it hinders people who want to experiment with switching back > and forth between the old and new ahci/ata drivers. =A0I feel for these > people, and I don't like making their lives hard. =A0But on the other > hand, this is a transition period, and experimenting is not without > headaches and risks. =A0A day will come, hopefully fairly soon, where > switching between the two subsystems is no longer needed, and I don't > like catering to a short term need at the expense of a long-term > need. If you are such a user it is trivial to switch to using UFS ID labels. Swap is a little more complex but you can use glabel fairly easily. =2D-=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart1487338.LL4kmf39c3 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.11 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBKWqU55ZPcIHs/zowRAtvsAJ9mN1w8mJ8gZuYaJ93YzKK5uRUBtQCgiplv Bth9nZEPfCRBP/2loydhdac= =0Yed -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1487338.LL4kmf39c3--
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