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To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@freebsd.org>
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Subject: Re: B_WRITE cleanup patch, please test!
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Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>
> 
> This patch is the first step towards the stackable BIO system as
> sketched out on http://www.freebsd.org/~phk/Geom/
>

you don't mention how you plan to get around the problem that
arbitrarily stacking devices means arbitrarily allocating minor
numbers. I used devfs to do this.


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