Re: Nit about defaults - /dev/wd2?

[David Brownlee <abs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On 1 December 2010 04:46, Donald Lee <MacPPC2%caution.icompute.com@localhost> 
wrote:
> My new server will have 3 ATA disks in it, and I found I had to
> go to /dev and MAKEDEV wd2 before I could "see" my third disk.
> Unfortunately, this is not so easy when booted from the cd. Worse,
> the ATA card gets scanned first, and the "top" disk (my boot disk)
> ended up being wd2, so it was an unexpected headache.
>
> I don't remember having this problem in 2.1, or 4.0 when testing setups.
> Is the frugal provisioning of disks something new in 5.0?
>
> I know that the vast majority of installs only have one disk, and
> two disks are an outlier, but I would think that setting up for 3 or 4
> would cover all but the most extreme cases. Â(no pun....)
>
> If I had my druthers, I'd set up a couple more disks by default,
> especially on the CD, since adding more is not quite trivial. ÂThe cost
> of carrying around the extra dev entries is tiny.

Done (in current :)