From owner-freebsd-arch Fri Jan 24 16:25:20 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 C919037B401; Fri, 24 Jan 2003 16:25:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailman.zeta.org.au (mailman.zeta.org.au [203.26.10.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A37143EB2; Fri, 24 Jan 2003 16:25:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bde@zeta.org.au) Received: from katana.zip.com.au (katana.zip.com.au [61.8.7.246]) by mailman.zeta.org.au (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id LAA12126; Sat, 25 Jan 2003 11:24:54 +1100 Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2003 11:26:46 +1100 (EST) From: Bruce Evans X-X-Sender: bde@gamplex.bde.org To: Peter Wemm Cc: phk@FreeBSD.ORG, Kris Kennaway , Subject: Re: HEADSUP: DEVFS and GEOM mandatorification timeline. In-Reply-To: <20030124190057.91A3B2A7EA@canning.wemm.org> Message-ID: <20030125110722.C8080-100000@gamplex.bde.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 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