From owner-freebsd-current Thu Dec 9 6:51:58 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mojave.sitaranetworks.com (mojave.sitaranetworks.com [199.103.141.157]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08A3F15607; Thu, 9 Dec 1999 06:51:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@mojave.sitaranetworks.com) Message-ID: <19991208214832.58332@mojave.sitaranetworks.com> Date: Wed, 8 Dec 1999 21:48:32 -0500 From: Greg Lehey To: Poul-Henning Kamp , Kris Kennaway Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Fallback paths (was: HEADSUP: wd driver will be retired!) Reply-To: Greg Lehey References: <34789.944683236@critter.freebsd.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <34789.944683236@critter.freebsd.dk>; from Poul-Henning Kamp on Wed, Dec 08, 1999 at 09:00:36PM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wednesday, 8 December 1999 at 21:00:36 +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > 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. Would you care to expand on that statement? Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message