The one which triggered my note was a proposal to have the kernel
take some kind of automatic action based on data stored in a special
place on the disk. It sort of begs the question "how do you address
a disk which hasn't been labeled?"
I'd like to see a retreat back to the proposals which deal with
the physical device naming only. (Disk partitions are well
enough established in the industry that they can be regarded
as hardware/firmware--provided the raw disk is also available.)
Software which looks on the disk for partition labels can be
part of the startup sequence--but only as user level programs.
Randolph Bentson