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Date:      Tue, 2 Jan 2001 19:01:46 +0100
From:      Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se>
To:        Christopher Rued <c.rued@xsb.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Must I s/wd0/ad0/ ?
Message-ID:  <20010102190146.A10427@student.uu.se>
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
References:  <14930.4565.309428.132217@chris.xsb.com>

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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.



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Erik Trulsson
ertr1013@student.uu.se



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