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Date:      Sun, 02 Mar 2003 13:53:47 +0100
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        obrien@FreeBSD.org
Cc:        src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/geom geom_int.h geom_subr.c 
Message-ID:  <7337.1046609627@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 01 Mar 2003 19:15:01 PST." <20030302031501.GA21817@dragon.nuxi.com> 

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In message <20030302031501.GA21817@dragon.nuxi.com>, "David O'Brien" writes:
>On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 01:48:27AM -0800, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>> phk         2003/02/12 01:48:27 PST
>> 
>>   Modified files:
>>     sys/geom             geom_int.h geom_subr.c 
>>   Log:
>>   Implement a handle for efficient implementation of perforations in
>>   lower extremities.
>>   
>>   Setting bit 4 in debugflags (sysctl kern.geom.debugflags=16) will
>>   allow any open to succeed on rank#1 providers.  This will generally
>>   correspond to the physical disk devices: ad0, da0, md0 etc.
>
>Thank you for the functionality, but could you have been any more opaque
>in this commit message??
>Why not simply say allow foot shooting since thats the way we've all been
>referring to this functionality in the mailing lists...
>

O'Brien doth protest too much, methinks.

Poul-Henning

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