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Date:      Tue, 17 Feb 2009 20:27:39 +0000
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        Marcel Moolenaar <xcllnt@mac.com>
Cc:        "Bjoern A. Zeeb" <bzeeb-lists@lists.zabbadoz.net>, Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@FreeBSD.org>, FreeBSD current mailing list <current@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: boot0cfg -s vs. GEOM_PART_*? 
Message-ID:  <15768.1234902459@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 17 Feb 2009 12:23:26 PST." <F04BCAF6-2478-4724-A7E6-94BD43BE77DB@mac.com> 

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In message <F04BCAF6-2478-4724-A7E6-94BD43BE77DB@mac.com>, Marcel Moolenaar wri
tes:

>> We do not want arbitrary large binary blobs in the confxml
>> output.
>
>I'm not going to start a discussion on arbitrariness
>and largeness of bootcode. Instead, let me just ask:
>
>Do you have alternatives?

Open the parent device, use read(2) to get it.

You can always open an geom device for reading (subject
to filesystem permissions).

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