From owner-freebsd-current Thu Jul 4 2:22:59 2002 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 50BAB37B400 for ; Thu, 4 Jul 2002 02:22:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1966F43E09 for ; Thu, 4 Jul 2002 02:22:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id D3BD5812AF; Thu, 4 Jul 2002 18:52:53 +0930 (CST) Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2002 18:52:53 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Bruce Evans Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp , Mario Goebbels , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: About GEOM... Message-ID: <20020704092253.GW75946@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <12909.1025704072@critter.freebsd.dk> <20020704191641.C21375-100000@gamplex.bde.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020704191641.C21375-100000@gamplex.bde.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.99i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thursday, 4 July 2002 at 19:20:00 +1000, Bruce Evans wrote: > On Wed, 3 Jul 2002, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > >> In message <20020703233109.B17974-100000@gamplex.bde.org>, Bruce Evans writes: >>> This is mostly because resources have been diverted away from updating >>> working code to write a second system. >> >> Make that third system, the current slice/label code is our second >> system, and I don't think the resources have been diverted as much >> as defected. >> >> Either way, I know you don't want either of DEVFS or GEOM, I think >> I know where you come from, I just happen to not agree that we >> should stay stuck back there. > > I disagree that DEVFS and GEOM are forwards. I don't know enough about GEOM to embrace it whole-heartedly, but I think you'd be hard pressed to find anybody who disagrees that devfs is a forward. It may need some improvement, but it's so much more logical than what we had before that I really think you should explain your objections. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message