I like the idea of getting rid of
the partition letter.

Is there an ioctl() to find out how
big a wedge is? I've never much liked
fetching the entire disk label, then
working out which entry based on the
pathname to the device. It's got a
precarious feel to it.

Similarly, is it possible to grow
a wedge with discontinuous space?
Let me explain that with an example.
I have a 100gb RAID and it all gets allocated.
The RAID supports growing the unit (logical disk)
by, say, another 100gb. I want to add the new
space to an existing file volume that
might not be on the end. OBTW, growing
and FFS volume really ain't so hard.

Regards,
	-gww

> -----Original Message-----
> From: tech-kern-owner@NetBSD.org [mailto:tech-kern-owner@NetBSD.org]On
> Behalf Of Jason Thorpe
> Sent: Sunday, October 03, 2004 4:18 PM
> To: Bill Studenmund
> Cc: tech-kern@NetBSD.org
> Subject: Re: Wedge aliases
> 
> 
> 
> On Oct 1, 2004, at 5:16 PM, Bill Studenmund wrote:
> 
> > The problem I'm seeing is that with Apple partition map support, we 
> > will
> > want to add wedges named according to the APM partition name. However
> > systems were all set up to use the 'a' through 'h' type names (sd0a, 
> > wd2h,
> > etc.).
> 
> My intent is for the use of "sd0a" etc. type names to go away, and 
> eventually be totally unsupported.
> 
>          -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@shagadelic.org>
> 
>