Date: Sat, 09 Aug 2003 06:38:51 +0200 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <grog@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: GEOM/vinum compatibility (was: vinum lock panic at startup -current) Message-ID: <7545.1060403931@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 09 Aug 2003 11:31:21 %2B0930." <20030809020121.GC1741@wantadilla.lemis.com>
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In message <20030809020121.GC1741@wantadilla.lemis.com>, "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" writes: >> and it seems that vinum does not respect the D_NOGIANT flag which >> GEOM recently started setting. > >Probably because it didn't know about it. As I've said before, it >would be nice to be informed about the changes you're making, >particularly given your stated intention of doing no work on Vinum. I had the choice between supporting sos@ effort to de-Giantize ATA or wait for the non-maintainer of vinum to possibly react to his email so I chose the former as being more beneficial to the project. >Could you please give details (privately if you want, but I think this >could be of interest to other people too). See sys/fs/specfs/specfs_vnops.c, that is probably faster. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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