Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 00:00:09 -0700 From: Studded <Studded@dal.net> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: CAM device names (Was: time for some new man pages... ) Message-ID: <3611D6F9.D5E737C0@dal.net> References: <20328.907137312@time.cdrom.com>
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Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > > I'd really be interested in a survey about this change. I'm willing to > > bet that to most a SCSI disk is simply that a *S*CSI *D*isk. FreeBSD has > > now added yet one more incompatibility (or if you prefer, yet something > > different, aka NIH) to the Unix world. > > > > What ever happened to the policy of least supprise? > > For what it's worth, I agree with you. It was an ill-advised change, > on par with the compat slice debacle and several other ill-advised > changes in the past, and a lot of people apparently agree on this. > I've also argued myself blue in the face with Justin over this one and > he's just 100% sold on this change as somehow necessary and good so > there's not much profit in arguing with him further. I do not agree, > but Justin's the architect and it doesn't appear that changing his > mind is an option at this point. Ok, that's fine, but at bare minimum we should support the old names for compatability. As someone else has already pointed out, adding "Yet Another Difference For Its Own Sake" from the rest of the unix world is just plain silly. Doug To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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