Why not just name the cam-ata devices the same as the old names?

[Jason J. Hellenthal]

On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 10:51:20PM -0700, Doug Barton wrote:
>On 04/26/2011 22:42, Jason J. Hellenthal wrote:
>> The best possible thing you could use here is a GPT scheme for the disks
>> to remain consistent across newfs's. But relying on GPT for all disks
>> will not always work in situations where the disk also involves a
>> operating system that does not support booting off of a GPT disk, like
>> all of Windows XP and then Win7
>
>Right. It's also not possible to move to gpt in existing installations 
>where it is impossible (or impractical) to wipe the disk and start over 
>again. Thanks for summarizing, and confirming my concerns.
>
>Fortunately, Alexander has already committed a transition mechanism that 
>should be transparent to the vast majority of our users. That will give 
>us until 10.0 to adopt a sane labeling scheme.
>

Here's to looking forward! ;)

-- 

 Regards, (jhell)
 Jason Hellenthal

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