From owner-freebsd-arch Mon May 8 1:10: 9 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.40.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF27C37BDCA; Mon, 8 May 2000 01:10:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost.freebsd.dk [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA16720; Mon, 8 May 2000 10:09:54 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: "Justin T. Gibbs" Cc: Greg Lehey , FreeBSD-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Support for bootable Vinum file systems: please review In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 07 May 2000 21:23:51 MDT." <200005080323.VAA04115@caspian.plutotech.com> Date: Mon, 08 May 2000 10:09:54 +0200 Message-ID: <16718.957773394@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <200005080323.VAA04115@caspian.plutotech.com>, "Justin T. Gibbs" wri tes: >My belief, and this is probably shared by phk, is that the handlers >for different partition types should be "executed" or "attached to" >as those partitions are found. A scan of a list is only necessary >in the event of a handler being registered after a partition is found. >Although devstat may suffice for the latter, it was not designed to >handle the former. 'GEOM' is what you want although I don't know >how soon phk can provide it to you. I agree. GEOM is probably still a month or two away, depending how my summer goes. When greg began working on this root-mount stuff I offered to make him an API into the disk-minilayer (ie: struct disk list), but he never sent me an email with what information he needed. The offer is still open. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD coreteam member | 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-arch" in the body of the message