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Date:      Mon, 23 Mar 2009 09:42:19 +0000
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@iet.unipi.it>
Cc:        luigi@freebsd.org, Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@freebsd.org>, Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org>, freebsd-geom@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: disk scheduling (was: Re: RFC: adding 'proxy' nodes to provider ports (with patch)) 
Message-ID:  <43415.1237801339@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 22 Mar 2009 10:51:29 %2B0100." <eb21ef440903220251m67700679r7fe6662f9081e910@mail.gmail.com> 

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In message <eb21ef440903220251m67700679r7fe6662f9081e910@mail.gmail.com>, Luigi
 Rizzo writes:

>>>Scheduling was just an example on where the problem came out,
>>
>> Scheduling is the *only* application I have seen mentioned for
>> this special case geom construct ?
>
>man 4 geom has a section which explicitly mentions this construct,
>with the same example that you posted in the thread:

You will notice that there is no mention of "special classes" or
"proxy nodes with special properties".

If you want to do it, do it right.

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