In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 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.
--
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