Re: wedge device to name

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

manu%netbsd.org@localhost (Emmanuel Dreyfus) writes:

>Hello

>Is there a reason why we do not translate wedges devices to their name?
>I mean, df and mount report about /dev/dkN, which is not very helpful
>since it can change quickly. Reporting about NAME= seems a better idea.

>In order to do it, we need a reverse getfsspecname(), and use it everywhere
>reasonable: df mount swapctl raidctl ... other ideas?

It's not necessarily a good idea to hide the dk devices, so that probably
needs to be an optional output. Also because there are people parsing
such output and expect a device path.

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