From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jul 3 6:50:24 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 23D0737B400 for ; Wed, 3 Jul 2002 06:50:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.86.163]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3AD4A43E52 for ; Wed, 3 Jul 2002 06:50:16 -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 g63Dlq6I012910; Wed, 3 Jul 2002 15:47:58 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: Bruce Evans Cc: Mario Goebbels , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: About GEOM... In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 03 Jul 2002 23:48:07 +1000." <20020703233109.B17974-100000@gamplex.bde.org> Date: Wed, 03 Jul 2002 15:47:52 +0200 Message-ID: <12909.1025704072@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 <20020703233109.B17974-100000@gamplex.bde.org>, Bruce Evans writes: >On Wed, 3 Jul 2002, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > >> In message <20020703212323.B15898-100000@gamplex.bde.org>, Bruce Evans writes: >> >On Wed, 3 Jul 2002, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >> >> 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. >> > >> >It shouldn't be standard, because then using it wouldn't be optional. >> >> It will be standard because the current code does not support at >> least two of our platforms for normal disk sizes and none of our >> platforms for big disk sizes. > >This is mostly because resources have been diverted away from updating >working code to write a second system. Make that third system, the current slice/label code is our second system, and I don't think the resources have been diverted as much as defected. Either way, I know you don't want either of DEVFS or GEOM, I think I know where you come from, I just happen to not agree that we should stay stuck back there. -- 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