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Subject: Re: race between geom and root mount 
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In message <20040921072221.GC93460@darkness.comp.waw.pl>, Pawel Jakub Dawidek w
rites:

>I've a patch which should solve your problem:
>
>	http://people.freebsd.org/~pjd/patches/root_mount.patch
>
>but it is not going to be committed, as phk asked me to hold on, he will
>provide some more complete solution.

Yes.  We need to solve this problem correctly, and that has a fair
number of issues involved.

I am not going to rush in a band-aid for 5.3, the risk of breaking
something is far larger than the inconvenience of not being able
to use a number of new geom classes for root filesystems.

When we have the correct solution, it can be MT5'ed and future 5.x
releases will have it.

-- 
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