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From: "Andrey V. Elsukov" <bu7cher@yandex.ru>
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On 09.11.2012 14:22, Luca Ferrari wrote:
> Thanks.
> I was thinking about that and found an answer also in the source code
> (geom_kern.c):
> SYSCTL_NODE(_kern, OID_AUTO, geom, CTLFLAG_RW, 0, "GEOMetry management");
> 
> 
> Anybody has a clue also for the meaning of geli?

Hi,

did you try ever use man(1) command?
Just try:
# man -k geom
# man 4 geom
# man geli

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WBR, Andrey V. Elsukov