On Wednesday, 8 December 1999 at 21:00:36 +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> 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.
Would you care to expand on that statement?
Greg
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