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

Doug Barton dougb at FreeBSD.org
Wed Apr 27 05:51:25 UTC 2011


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.

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