From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Oct 4 14:59:21 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 974A837B401; Fri, 4 Oct 2002 14:59:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.rpi.edu (mail.rpi.edu [128.113.22.40]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E05C243E7B; Fri, 4 Oct 2002 14:59:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.netel.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by mail.rpi.edu (8.12.1/8.12.1) with ESMTP id g94LxG20146262; Fri, 4 Oct 2002 17:59:17 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <62515.1033758160@critter.freebsd.dk> References: <62515.1033758160@critter.freebsd.dk> Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2002 17:59:15 -0400 To: Poul-Henning Kamp , Lars Eggert From: Garance A Drosihn Subject: Re: [ GEOM tests ] vinum drives lost Cc: n0go013 , current , not on list - please copy Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.3 (www dot roaringpenguin dot com slash mimedefang) Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 9:02 PM +0200 10/4/02, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >There are numerous architectural issues which have never been >fixed in vinum, and one or more of these bits now. > >Whoever loves vinum will have to chase it/them down and fix it. > >If I receive patches or requests for changes to GEOM as result >of this, they will be evaluated in good faith. > >Worst case you will have the option to use: > > options NOGEOM > options vinum I know nothing about vinum and only a little about GEOM, so I have no opinion on which should be fixed to work with the other, and I'm reluctant to get drawn into that battle anyway. However, I do think that if it isn't easy to get the two of them to work together nicely, then we should enforce the above options in the source code. Ie, if someone tries to compile a kernel with both GEOM and vinum turned on, then the compile should fail with some suitable error message. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message