From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Oct 3 11:16:19 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 567EF37B401 for ; Thu, 3 Oct 2002 11:16:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (esplanaden.cybercity.dk [212.242.40.114]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C99543E42 for ; Thu, 3 Oct 2002 11:16:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id g93IFgZ5007945; Thu, 3 Oct 2002 20:15:43 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: Bakul Shah Cc: Bruce Evans , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: vmware reads disk on non-sector boundary In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 03 Oct 2002 09:37:07 PDT." <200210031637.MAA01800@rodney.cnchost.com> Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2002 20:15:42 +0200 Message-ID: <7944.1033668942@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <200210031637.MAA01800@rodney.cnchost.com>, Bakul Shah writes: >I never understood why removal of block devices was allowed >in the first place. You are welcome to peruse the mail-archives to find out such historically interesting decisions. You are not welcome to build another bikeshed over it. >How hard would it be to bring back block devices without GEOM? Not at all hard, pretty trivial in fact. >Is there a write up somewhere on what GEOM is and its >benefits? I'd hate to see it become the default without >understanding it (and no, reading source code doesn't do it). Man 4 geom is a good place to start. There will also be a tutorial friday afternoon about GEOM at BSDCONeuro2002 in amsterdam next month. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message