Date: Sat, 10 May 2003 12:25:53 +0200 From: Matthias Schuendehuette <msch@snafu.de> To: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GEOM loose end? Message-ID: <200305101225.53877.msch@snafu.de> In-Reply-To: <13473.1052511292@critter.freebsd.dk> References: <13473.1052511292@critter.freebsd.dk>
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Hello phk, On Friday 09 May 2003 22:14, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > [...] > The very reason why you need to set a debug flag in geom is that > libdisk sneaks under the entire GEOM stack when it writes its changes > to the disk, and the kernel/GEOM has not been and will not be bloated > with code to detect this hack. > [...] > Unfortunately, I don't have time to work much on this issue, just > getting the kernel side and the basic tools (bsdlabel(8), sunlabel(8) > etc in shape takes most of the time I have. Perhaps a side issue - is it possible to tell the GRUB-people how to deal with GEOM correctly? Sure, the 'kern.geom.debugflags=16'-setting seems to be a workaround (?) but not a solution. -- Ciao/BSD - Matthias Matthias Schuendehuette <msch [at] snafu.de>, Berlin (Germany) Powered by FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT
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