Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 15:09:31 -0700 From: Gordon Tetlow <gordon@freebsd.org> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> Cc: geom@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GEOM class idea... Message-ID: <20040614220931.GR10016@spiff.melthusia.org> In-Reply-To: <87385.1087146851@critter.freebsd.dk> References: <87385.1087146851@critter.freebsd.dk>
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--0iexB5Bk8cF8G6DP Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, Jun 13, 2004 at 07:14:11PM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >=20 > OK, here is one of the more nasty ideas for a GEOM class: >=20 > Many of us read CD's into iso images, stick them on a harddisk and > mount them from there when we need to access them. This usually > costs us a md(4) vnode gadget, and that is really a waste. =2E.. description of grotty geom class ... I can't imagine that all the pain that you are talking about is a worthwhile effort when it's so easy to do a md backed file. I can just about guarentee that users will have spare files and capacity before they have a spare disk running around. Maybe I'm missing something here, but what is the advantage of going straight off of the disk? Are you trying to avoid the FFS filesystem overhead? -gordon --0iexB5Bk8cF8G6DP Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFAziIbRu2t9DV9ZfsRAo/DAKC9PWuQFQg5hJJyMe0NG661B9wNVQCg0+SR pHPMRmXEs5lCJFvyV+mLHtQ= =0kZK -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --0iexB5Bk8cF8G6DP--
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