From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Mar 8 22:12:56 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA11226 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Sun, 8 Mar 1998 22:12:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from firewall.scitec.com.au (firewall-user@fgate.scitec.com.au [203.17.180.68]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA11194 for ; Sun, 8 Mar 1998 22:12:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from john.saunders@scitec.com.au) Received: by firewall.scitec.com.au; id QAA05767; Mon, 9 Mar 1998 16:12:18 +1000 (EST) Received: from mailhub.scitec.com.au(203.17.180.131) by fgate.scitec.com.au via smap (3.2) id xma005760; Mon, 9 Mar 98 16:12:04 +1000 Received: from hydra.scitec.com.au (hydra.scitec.com.au [203.17.182.101]) by mailhub.scitec.com.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) with ESMTP id QAA20827; Mon, 9 Mar 1998 16:12:02 +1000 Received: from scitec.com.au (saruman.scitec.com.au) by hydra.scitec.com.au with ESMTP (1.40.112.8/16.2) id AA228823918; Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:11:58 +1100 Message-Id: <3503882E.C90B6AE3@scitec.com.au> Date: Mon, 09 Mar 1998 17:11:58 +1100 From: John Saunders Organization: SCITEC LIMITED X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (WinNT; I) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Mike Smith , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: *HEADS UP* Important change warning. (long version) References: <199803090548.VAA13372@dingo.cdrom.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Mike Smith wrote: > Operating systems aren't normally expected to assist their users with > their own personal delusions. Can't let this one pass, 'Symbolic links' :) > - It makes writing code to manipulate disk partitioning information > quite difficult. > - It makes it completely impossible to boot both FreeBSD and NetBSD > off the same disk. > - It leads to sysinstall being forced to create the "mess" you refer to > in /etc/fstab > - It leads to people abusing the compatability slice like you describe. Hmm. I knew there was some kludges going on with the old scheme but this really drives home the reasons for change to me (I was going to install NetBSD at some stage). Don't know why some people get so emotional about the name of a device. If FreeBSD is to move forward we all must accept that change is inevitable. Mike also did a good job of warning us before hand. I also suspect that if you stuff up the make world you could still boot up in single user mode and correct the situation since it doesn't read /etc/fstab. Or reboot with the old kernel as suggested. One question. What should be put in the kernel config file for the line that normally reads "kernel on wd0a"? Or doesn't it matter too much? Cheers. -- +------------------------------------------------------------+ . | John Saunders mailto:John.Saunders@scitec.com.au (Work) | ,--_|\ | mailto:john@nlc.net.au (Home) | / Oz \ | http://www.nlc.net.au/~john/ | \_,--\_/ | SCITEC LIMITED Phone +61 2 9428 9563 Fax +61 2 9428 9933 | v | "By the time you make ends meet, they move the ends." | +------------------------------------------------------------+ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message