mounting wedges by name

[mlelstv%serpens.de@localhost (Michael van Elst)]

The wedge driver dk(4) provides a method to access disk partitions
different from the traditional /dev/DNP for partion P on instance N
of driver D. One issue with wedges is that the device nodes /dev/dkN
are more volatile. A specific instance N of the driver doesn't
necessarily refer to a specific partition and creating a new
partitition may renumber all your devices.

Wedges however have names. The driver uses a UUID as the default
name of a partition, but can also provide arbitrary Unicode strings
(e.g. from a GPT label).

http://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/mlelstv/mount.diff is a patch
to mount(8) that allows you to mount a partition by using the syntax
"NAME=string" as the special file where 'string' is the Unicode name
of the wedge. The same syntax can be used in fstab.

Comments?

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