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Date:      Wed, 03 Jul 2002 10:44:17 +0200
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        Mario Goebbels <mariog@tomservo.cc>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: About GEOM... 
Message-ID:  <56648.1025685857@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 02 Jul 2002 15:51:34 %2B0200." <3D21AFE6.2050605@tomservo.cc> 

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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.

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