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On Mon, 8 Sep 2003, Michael Edenfield wrote:
> There was, at one point, talk of adding some sort of
> "geom.dont_blame_phk_when_you_shoot_your_ankle_off" sysctl to permit this
> type of access when the user was absolutely sure they knew exactly what
> kind of dangerous and potentially corrupting thing they were doing and
> wanted to do it anyway, but I'm not sure it got anywhere.

ftp://ftp.jurai.net/users/winter/patches/geom-foot.patch

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