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From: Stas Myasnikov <myst@tut.by>
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Subject: What is this GEOM thing?
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Hello, hackers.

Can anyone tell me what is GEOM basically? I know that there's geom@,
but I think it's about concrete realisation.

I know that it's a layer between device drivers and devfs, but do
I really need it on my home PC? Should I include it in the KERNEL?

Bye.
 
   
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