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Date:      Fri, 10 Jul 2009 08:38:30 +0000
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org>
Cc:        svn-src-head@FreeBSD.org, svn-src-all@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, Scott Long <scottl@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r195534 - in head: etc/mtree include lib/libcam sbin/camcontrol share/man/man4 sys/cam sys/cam/ata sys/cam/scsi sys/conf sys/dev/advansys sys/dev/ahci sys/dev/aic7xxx sys/dev/amd sys/de... 
Message-ID:  <80355.1247215110@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 10 Jul 2009 02:31:56 CST." <4A56FC7C.8060107@samsco.org> 

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In message <4A56FC7C.8060107@samsco.org>, Scott Long writes:

>1. I clearly stated that the name is experimental and that a change in
>the future is possible.

But what on earth is the point ??

You want to _avoid_ people testing your code ?

>4. While feelings may have been hurt 12 years ago, life did, in fact, go
>on.

Yes, after a considerable number of "My system cannot find its harddisk
any more" support emails.

I'm all for unifying the namespace, but still remember how much pain
the "didn't find that disk, lets renumber all of the rest of them"
causes, so I tend to prefer physically bound names.

-- 
Poul-Henning Kamp       | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20
phk@FreeBSD.ORG         | TCP/IP since RFC 956
FreeBSD committer       | BSD since 4.3-tahoe    
Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.



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