Re: /etc/disktab on vax

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

On 22 June 2012 20:55, Anders Magnusson <ragge%ludd.ltu.se@localhost> wrote:
> On 06/22/2012 09:17 PM, Jochen Kunz wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, 22 Jun 2012 15:11:46 +0200
>> Anders Magnusson <ragge%ludd.ltu.se@localhost> wrote:
>>
>>> In reality, I assume that there are
>>> very few people in the world (besides me) that still has Massbus disks
>>> around :-)
>>
>> Well. No Massbus nor Eagles. But assorted 9" SMD drives from NEC,
>> Hitachi and Seagate as well as a RL02 and a RK05. :-)
>
> Are the SMD disks connected via a Massbus emulating card?
> In that case you are a typical example of the problem that the disktab info
> solves :-)

So would it make sense to keep the entries but just update them to a
single large partition? That retains the key ability to safely label
such disks, without the (of only historical relevance) partition
tables?