Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 13:08:02 +0200 From: Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: race between geom and root mount Message-ID: <20040921110802.GF93460@darkness.comp.waw.pl> In-Reply-To: <62584.1095755311@critter.freebsd.dk> References: <20040921072221.GC93460@darkness.comp.waw.pl> <62584.1095755311@critter.freebsd.dk>
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--f61P+fpdnY2FZS1u Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-2 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Sep 21, 2004 at 10:28:31AM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: +> >I've a patch which should solve your problem: +> > +> > http://people.freebsd.org/~pjd/patches/root_mount.patch +> > +> >but it is not going to be committed, as phk asked me to hold on, he will +> >provide some more complete solution. +>=20 +> Yes. We need to solve this problem correctly, and that has a fair +> number of issues involved. +>=20 +> I am not going to rush in a band-aid for 5.3, the risk of breaking +> something is far larger than the inconvenience of not being able +> to use a number of new geom classes for root filesystems. +>=20 +> When we have the correct solution, it can be MT5'ed and future 5.x +> releases will have it. Why can't we just use my fix temporarily, so gmirror can be fully usable for 5.3-RELEASE? We can always back it out and MT5 a better solution later. --=20 Pawel Jakub Dawidek http://www.FreeBSD.org pjd@FreeBSD.org http://garage.freebsd.pl FreeBSD committer Am I Evil? Yes, I Am! --f61P+fpdnY2FZS1u Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBUAuSForvXbEpPzQRAp8TAKCUNP3cFmIrtPludC2qvROt/kGFpACg4CU3 nIsRb0Oev1Rw/v7vp4b9qqk= =Ceiw -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --f61P+fpdnY2FZS1u--
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