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Cc: John Polstra <jdp@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-src@FreeBSD.org,
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/cam/scsi scsi_cd.c scsi_da.c src/sys/geom
 geom_disk.c geom_disk.h geom_subr.c
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Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> In message <437D94EA.90909@samsco.org>, Scott Long writes:
> 
>>Lukas Ertl wrote:
> 
> 
>>What does this mean for other drivers?  RAID arrays can come and go
>>at runtime, either due to drive failure or due to actions by the user
>>via a management app.  I don't recall ever seeing a problem like this
>>with the aac driver and creating/destroying arrays in a loop at runtime.
> 
> 
> Most drivers seem to detach their internal state from the struct
> disk, and therefore they don't need this.
> 

So what makes CAM special in this regard?

Scott