From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Mar 17 06:09:20 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA17976 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Tue, 17 Mar 1998 06:09:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from shrimp.dataplex.net (shrimp.dataplex.net [208.2.87.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA17971 for ; Tue, 17 Mar 1998 06:09:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rkw@dataplex.net) Received: from [208.2.87.4] (user4.dataplex.net [208.2.87.4]) by shrimp.dataplex.net (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA28182; Tue, 17 Mar 1998 08:08:17 -0600 (CST) X-Sender: rkw@mail.dataplex.net Message-Id: In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Tue, 17 Mar 1998 08:05:25 -0600 To: Scot Elliott From: Richard Wackerbarth Subject: Re: ATTENTION: Call for opinion re: root device naming change Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG, mike@smith.net.au Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk At 7:30 AM -0600 3/17/98, Scot Elliott wrote: >So I had to give up and revert to 2.2.5-STABLE.. The machine's miles >away so it's kind of hard to test these things. Anyone got any ideas? Keep "hammering" on Mike Smith. His changes caused the problem. I fear that he will view the early "it's great" comments as approval. However, the sample is EXTREMELY BIASED toward individuals who closely track things. If this change gets into the distribution, I expect there to be a significant number of users who get "bitten" by the same situation. And they don't even know that this discussion is taking place. Richard Wackerbarth To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message