Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2002 20:15:42 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Bakul Shah <bakul@bitblocks.com> Cc: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: vmware reads disk on non-sector boundary Message-ID: <7944.1033668942@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 03 Oct 2002 09:37:07 PDT." <200210031637.MAA01800@rodney.cnchost.com>
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In message <200210031637.MAA01800@rodney.cnchost.com>, Bakul Shah writes: >I never understood why removal of block devices was allowed >in the first place. You are welcome to peruse the mail-archives to find out such historically interesting decisions. You are not welcome to build another bikeshed over it. >How hard would it be to bring back block devices without GEOM? Not at all hard, pretty trivial in fact. >Is there a write up somewhere on what GEOM is and its >benefits? I'd hate to see it become the default without >understanding it (and no, reading source code doesn't do it). Man 4 geom is a good place to start. There will also be a tutorial friday afternoon about GEOM at BSDCONeuro2002 in amsterdam next month. -- 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-hackers" in the body of the message
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