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To: Lukas Ertl <l.ertl@univie.ac.at>
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Subject: Re: HEADSUP: disk_*(9) API change mega-patch 
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In message <20040205114149.I618@korben.in.tern>, Lukas Ertl writes:
>On Thu, 5 Feb 2004, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>
>> This is a mostly mechanical and largely untested patch, so please test
>> carefully if you have the necessary hardware.
>>
>> Kernel patch:
>> 	http://phk.freebsd.dk/patch/disk.patch
>> [...]
>> This patch changes the disk_*(9) API so that ownership of the "struct
>> disk" is moved from the device drivers to GEOM.  This removes a lot
>> of trouble from the disk_destroy(9) handling, which should be robust
>> with this patch.
>
>Will this be a solution for the deadlock we were discussing lately on
>geom@?

I belive so, reports confirming or denying this are most welcome.

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