From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 8 21:38:56 2003 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 86A7F37B401; Fri, 8 Aug 2003 21:38:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (port757.uc1-esp.isdn-lan.cybercity.dk [212.242.98.245]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3868043FE0; Fri, 8 Aug 2003 21:38:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from phk@phk.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h794cpuG007546; Sat, 9 Aug 2003 06:38:51 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@phk.freebsd.dk) To: "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 09 Aug 2003 11:31:21 +0930." <20030809020121.GC1741@wantadilla.lemis.com> Date: Sat, 09 Aug 2003 06:38:51 +0200 Message-ID: <7545.1060403931@critter.freebsd.dk> cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: GEOM/vinum compatibility (was: vinum lock panic at startup -current) 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: Sat, 09 Aug 2003 04:38:56 -0000 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.