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Date:      Tue, 13 Jan 2009 15:31:16 +0100
From:      Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@iet.unipi.it>
To:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
Cc:        geom@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: geom 'taste' vs. manual creation ?
Message-ID:  <20090113143116.GA93244@onelab2.iet.unipi.it>
In-Reply-To: <29945.1231856558@critter.freebsd.dk>
References:  <20090113122111.GA89189@onelab2.iet.unipi.it> <29945.1231856558@critter.freebsd.dk>

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On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 02:22:38PM +0000, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> In message <20090113122111.GA89189@onelab2.iet.unipi.it>, Luigi Rizzo writes:
> >geom(4) says:
> >
> >   A geom which came into being as a result of a normal taste operation
> >   should self-destruct...
> >
> >Now I wonder:
> >does the GEOM infrastructure record whether a geom has been created
> >by a 'taste' call, or manually through a 'geom xxx create ..', or
> >this info should be managed directly by the individual implementation ?
> 
> No, there is no difference on how a geom is created.  The above
> statement indicates a level of magic that is not really there, all
> the geoms get orphaned the same way.

ok thanks
luigi



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