From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 28 1:34:11 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from drwho.xnet.com (drwho.xnet.com [205.243.140.183]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A8AE151E7 for ; Sun, 28 Feb 1999 01:33:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from drwho@drwho.xnet.com) Received: (from drwho@localhost) by drwho.xnet.com (8.9.2/8.9.2) id XAA10503 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 27 Feb 1999 23:17:15 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from drwho) Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1999 23:17:15 -0600 From: Michael Maxwell To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Reason for device name changes Message-ID: <19990227231715.A10488@drwho.xnet.com> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.3i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'm just curious as to the reasoning behind the new naming conventions in FreeBSD 3.x for the disk devices (for example, /dev/sd0 is now /dev/da0). Has this managed to break any programs/scripts yet? My guess is quite a few.... -- Michael Maxwell | http://www.xnet.com/~drwho/ "American Justice: oxymoron. William J. Clinton: moron." --M. Maxwell (1999) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message