Re: Nit about defaults - /dev/wd2?

[Donald Lee <MacPPC2%caution.icompute.com@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.  (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.  The cost
>> of carrying around the extra dev entries is tiny.
>
>Done (in current :)

Cool.  Thanks,

-dgl-