Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2003 11:26:46 +1100 (EST) From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> Cc: phk@FreeBSD.ORG, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, <arch@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: HEADSUP: DEVFS and GEOM mandatorification timeline. Message-ID: <20030125110722.C8080-100000@gamplex.bde.org> In-Reply-To: <20030124190057.91A3B2A7EA@canning.wemm.org>
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On Fri, 24 Jan 2003, Peter Wemm wrote: > 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. Features like disklabel -r and disklabel -W not working are not bugs of course. > 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 True. Some of us stopped working on FreeBSD already due to this. Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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