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To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org, Adam McDougall <mcdouga9@egr.msu.edu>
Subject: Re: gmirror doubt.
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On Thu, 24 Jan 2013 11:22:04 -0600, Adam McDougall <mcdouga9@egr.msu.edu>  
wrote:

>
> Just putting in my 2 cents that I'd LOVE LOVE LOVE a sysctl to disable
> tasting by geom, even if global.  My #1 extreme frustration with gmirror,
> gjournal etc is the difficulty of removing the on-disk config when the
> kernel is fighting you to keep re-tasting it and keeping it active.

I can't agree more. The GEOM framework and tasting is brilliant, but we  
need to be able to control it.