> Right on both counts, though I'd replace "sort of" with "very".  In
> fact, I'd go further and call it really gross.  One of the things I
> hate most about our SGI machines is these long baroque disk names.

Well, one of the things I hate about those BSD systems is their flat /dev
directory. No structure whatsoever (excpet for the /dev/fd subdirectory).
I'd love to have /dev/scsi, /dev/pty, /dev/ipi and so on.

> Um, the root filesystem is mounted read-only at that point, and may
> never go read-write.

Good point.

>  Besides, I (for one) really _really_ dislike
> wiring knowledge of pathnames like "/dev/scsi" into the kernel.

OK, so the link idea is dumb. Well, let's just drop /dev/sdXX, then.

> > I'm talking about having to reompile the kernel when you want to add
> > a second swap drive,
> Yeah, this is a bit ugly.  I'm sure whoever finally gets around to
> fixing it will have a bunch of people grateful.

Yes. Given the time it can take to download the source of the kernel,
it's a real annoyance. Until now, the only reason why I needed that source
was to add /dev/sd1b as a swap device.

> > or the (supposed) inability of the normal kernel to mount anything
> > else than /dev/sd0a on /.
> I think "config netbsd swap generic" (you actually want "root generic",
> but they go together - something else that needs fixing) works now,
> though I'm not sure.

But supposedly this generic option prevents the use of a second swap device.


	Stefan