Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 13:13:43 +0200 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org> Cc: John Hay <jhay@icomtek.csir.co.za> Subject: Re: race between geom and root mount Message-ID: <87340.1095765223@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 21 Sep 2004 13:08:02 %2B0200." <20040921110802.GF93460@darkness.comp.waw.pl>
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In message <20040921110802.GF93460@darkness.comp.waw.pl>, Pawel Jakub Dawidek w rites: >+> 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. > >Why can't we just use my fix temporarily, so gmirror can be fully usable >for 5.3-RELEASE? We can always back it out and MT5 a better solution >later. I am not convinced that your fix will not cause other problems. -- 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.
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