From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 21 11:08:05 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 147F716A4CE for ; Tue, 21 Sep 2004 11:08:05 +0000 (GMT) Received: from darkness.comp.waw.pl (darkness.comp.waw.pl [195.117.238.136]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A507D43D41 for ; Tue, 21 Sep 2004 11:08:04 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from pjd@darkness.comp.waw.pl) Received: by darkness.comp.waw.pl (Postfix, from userid 1009) id 71D25ACAFE; Tue, 21 Sep 2004 13:08:02 +0200 (CEST) Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 13:08:02 +0200 From: Pawel Jakub Dawidek To: Poul-Henning Kamp Message-ID: <20040921110802.GF93460@darkness.comp.waw.pl> References: <20040921072221.GC93460@darkness.comp.waw.pl> <62584.1095755311@critter.freebsd.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="f61P+fpdnY2FZS1u" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <62584.1095755311@critter.freebsd.dk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2i X-PGP-Key-URL: http://people.freebsd.org/~pjd/pjd.asc X-OS: FreeBSD 5.2.1-RC2 i386 cc: John Hay cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: race between geom and root mount X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 11:08:05 -0000 --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--