From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jul 3 1:46:45 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1397237B405 for ; Wed, 3 Jul 2002 01:46:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.86.163]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38FC643E52 for ; Wed, 3 Jul 2002 01:46:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.12.3/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g638iH6I056649; Wed, 3 Jul 2002 10:44:23 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: Mario Goebbels Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: About GEOM... In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 02 Jul 2002 15:51:34 +0200." <3D21AFE6.2050605@tomservo.cc> Date: Wed, 03 Jul 2002 10:44:17 +0200 Message-ID: <56648.1025685857@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <3D21AFE6.2050605@tomservo.cc>, Mario Goebbels writes: >Hi! > >I have some questions about it. > >The first one is, when I compiled GEOM into the kernel, will physical >disks be controlled by it already? Or does it apply to md mounted >devices yet? all disks should be GEOM'ized. >And the second is, when will it be officially activated? Seems to work >fine yet (toying around with it). Some bits are missing yet, for instance the ioctls to change disklabels etc. when they're done and it works also with sysinstall it'll be standard. Before 5.0 if at all possible. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message