> > 	This is a very nice idea, but how do you handle the case where
> > 	you have two or more partitions named the same on different
> > 	disks?
> > 
> > 		/dev/dsk/sd0/rdb/NetBSD-home
> > 		/dev/dsk/named/NetBSD-home
> > 
> > 	The latter only created when there is a single unique partition
> > 	named 'NetBSD-home'.
> 
> I don't think so. Having multiple partitions with the name should be
> considered a configuration error.

"I don't think so, Tim."

Consider the case where you have more than one version of the OS,
or more than one OS.  You could have multiple root, usr, var
partitions, and you want them mounted in different places depending
on which OS/version you booted.

Or you are building a disk to be moved to another machine.
Or a machine died and you have moved disk(s) from that machine
to another.

-Dave