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Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2002 18:11:17 -0800
From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To: walt <wa1ter@hotmail.com>
Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, phk@FreeBSD.ORG, re@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: (anti-)Foot-shooting in GEOM (Re: editting disklabels)
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On Sun, Dec 29, 2002 at 03:05:18PM -0800, walt wrote:

> The GEOM code is still changing every day so things are not yet in
> finished condition.  If I understand correctly phk will eventually
> make it possible to do what you want, but he's not there quite yet.

I think phk should disable that locking restriction until there is a
way to perform previously-supported operations like adding/modifying
an unmounted partition on a mounted disk.  It's going to be the source
of much confusion in 5.0-RELEASE.

Kris

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