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From: Chris Torek <torek@torek.net>
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Subject: Re: MAXPHYS in md(4)
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>This really should be moved up into the generic GEOM layer so geom
>module ever sees IO that is larger than MAXPHYS...

Well, maybe, but if you're going to do something like that it
might be nice to have the device equivalent of MTU discovery....

Chris