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On 23-May-2004 Brian Feldman wrote:
>> GEOM is slower than 4-stable in a degenerate case like this, but it
>> sounds to me like there is something else involved here too.  Have
>> you removed WITNESS from your kernel ?
> 
> Yeah, perhaps something else like using /dev/ad2 which is a bdev in
> -STABLE but cdev in -CURRENT?

Nope, block devices are gone in 4.x too.

John