Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2007 10:35:24 +0000 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: Ivan Voras <ivoras@fer.hr> Cc: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New g_part class Message-ID: <91005.1170758124@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 06 Feb 2007 11:32:11 %2B0100." <eq9lfb$5o4$1@sea.gmane.org>
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In message <eq9lfb$5o4$1@sea.gmane.org>, Ivan Voras writes: >Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > >> Considering the fact that editing can be done equally well in >> userland, what is the rationale or benefit of putting the code into >> the kernel, to deal with very infrequent operations to change the >> disk-layout ? > >Hmm, editing partition in userland... isn't there some well known >problem with editing partitions in userland requiring setting >kern.geom.debugflags to 16 before continuing? I might be wrong, but I >think this was one of the problems with geom_gpt? If the geom classes are implemented correctly, you should never need to set kern.geom.debugflags. -- 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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