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In message <20081106123102.GQ50955@stlux503.dsto.defence.gov.au>, "Wilkinson, A
lex" writes:
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>    0n Thu, Nov 06, 2008 at 09:14:09AM +0000, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: 
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>    >Any bugs it might cause would be userland utilities not being able
>    >to find their geom instances, and lulf's work offers the solution
>    >for that.
>
>what is "lulf's work" all about ?

Matching /dev entries to geom provider names.

See r182843 and r182863.

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