From owner-freebsd-current Wed Dec 8 12:10:48 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.40.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 840621628C; Wed, 8 Dec 1999 12:00:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id VAA34791; Wed, 8 Dec 1999 21:00:36 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: Kris Kennaway Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADSUP: wd driver will be retired! In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 08 Dec 1999 09:54:07 PST." Date: Wed, 08 Dec 1999 21:00:36 +0100 Message-ID: <34789.944683236@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message , Kris Ken naway writes: >On Wed, 8 Dec 1999, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > >> Update your /etc/fstab (use /dev/ad* instead of /dev/wd* or >> /dev/rwd* > >Can't we keep the same device names? I thought that was the original plan >way back when, once the new driver was ready for prime-time. > >Also, perhaps we should have a changing-over period where the old drivers >are still available under a new name - until recently, Soren was >advertising the driver as "WARNING: This is pre-alpha code and may trash >your filesystems", etc, which may well have limited his testing base (it >certainly scared me off). I'm all for moving forward, but I'd hate to >eliminate a fallback path in case the transition proves less than smooth. The fallback path is not eliminated, and may never be, but it may become rather uncomfortable to linger on it longer than you absolutely need to. -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message