From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 2 10: 1:57 2001 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 2 10:01:55 2001 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hamberg.it.uu.se (hamberg.it.uu.se [130.238.9.198]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB7EC37B402 for ; Tue, 2 Jan 2001 10:01:54 -0800 (PST) Received: (from ertr1013@localhost) by hamberg.it.uu.se (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA10591; Tue, 2 Jan 2001 19:01:46 +0100 (MET) Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2001 19:01:46 +0100 From: Erik Trulsson To: Christopher Rued Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Must I s/wd0/ad0/ ? Message-ID: <20010102190146.A10427@student.uu.se> References: <14930.4565.309428.132217@chris.xsb.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <14930.4565.309428.132217@chris.xsb.com>; from c.rued@xsb.com on Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 12:37:25PM -0500 Sender: ertr1013@csd.uu.se Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 12:37:25PM -0500, Christopher Rued wrote: > I recently upgraded to RELENG_4_1_1_RELEASE, and followed the > instructions for upgrading from 3.x-STABLE in UPDATING. > > I followed the instructions for creating the ad.s. devices, and had no > problems with that, but nowhere did it say to change my fstab to use > the new devices. > > My system seems to be working fine with the old wd.s. devices, and I was > wondering why this is. Did I do something wrong so that the support for > these devices was not removed (as I believe it should have been)? > > I haven't tried switching my fstab entries to ad.s. yet, because I > wanted to make sure that what I was observing was normal. > The ad* driver can use the old wd* entries for backwards compatibility. This means that everything should work fine with the wd* entries in /etc/fstab. (Assuming that you still have the /dev/wd* entries) So what you are observing is quite normal. -- Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message