From owner-freebsd-arch Fri Jan 24 11: 0:59 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8FB937B401; Fri, 24 Jan 2003 11:00:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from canning.wemm.org (canning.wemm.org [192.203.228.65]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A175243F18; Fri, 24 Jan 2003 11:00:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) Received: from wemm.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by canning.wemm.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91A3B2A7EA; Fri, 24 Jan 2003 11:00:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: phk@freebsd.org Cc: Kris Kennaway , arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADSUP: DEVFS and GEOM mandatorification timeline. In-Reply-To: <16728.1043173644@critter.freebsd.dk> Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 11:00:57 -0800 From: Peter Wemm Message-Id: <20030124190057.91A3B2A7EA@canning.wemm.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG phk@freebsd.org wrote: > In message <20030121092851.A27172@citusc.usc.edu>, Kris Kennaway writes: > >On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 12:58:12PM +0100, phk@FreeBSD.ORG wrote: > >>=20 > >> I have uploaded two patchfiles: > >>=20 > >> http://phk.freebsd.dk/patch/small.patch > >> Removes just the options from sys/conf > >>=20 > >> http://phk.freebsd.dk/patch/big.patch > >> unifdef -UNODEVFS -UNO_GEOM > >> Removes roughly 2800 lines of code. > > > >To the best of your knowledge, there are no remaining serious bugs or > >missing functionality with GEOM (like the disklabel editing problems > >found before 5.0, etc)? > > There is one errata point (can't rewrite BSD boot code on a disk > which is in use) which I am testing a patch for. > > I know of no bugs at present. BTW; assuming these are taken care of, do we really gain anything by waiting so long? Personally, I'd rather get it over and done with sooner rather than later. What does waiting another month and a half buy us? The handful folks who dont like it now are not going to start liking it by March 1st :-(. Frankly I'd rather have an extra month focussed on this code to shake out any remaining quirks and make sure that we have all the bases covered and that we actually deal with any reasons why folks might be using NO_GEOM and not letting us know. It would give us an extra month to solve those before the next release/branch/whatever. Cheers, -Peter -- Peter Wemm - peter@wemm.org; peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message