Re: HEADSUP gconcat(8) and gstripe(8) users!

From: Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd_at_FreeBSD.org>
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 07:43:51 +0200
On Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 11:06:15PM +0200, Matthias Andree wrote:
+> Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd_at_FreeBSD.org> writes:
+> 
+> > I'm going to change provider's naming tomorrow.
+> > The old (current) naming is: /dev/<name>.concat and /dev/<name>.stripe.
+> > The new one is going to be: /dev/concat/<name> and /dev/stripe/<name>.
+> >
+> > So, dear user, if your are using gconcat(8) or gstripe(8) don't forget
+> > to change your /etc/fstab after upgreading the system.
+> 
+> I wonder if "make installworld" should display such warnings (or head
+> /usr/src/UPDATING FWIW) and give the user a chance to abort the
+> installation.

First of all, I don't think there are many gstripe/gconcat users out there.

Gstripe as well as gconcat was introduced after 5.2.1 - there was no
FreeBSD release with this code.

That's why I think this is not necessary, this is -CURRENT and user can
always fix his /etc/fstab on boot.

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pjd_at_FreeBSD.org                           http://garage.freebsd.pl
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