Re: GEOM loose end?

From: Matthias Schuendehuette <msch_at_snafu.de>
Date: Sat, 10 May 2003 12:25:53 +0200
Hello phk,

On Friday 09 May 2003 22:14, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> [...]
> The very reason why you need to set a debug flag in geom is that
> libdisk sneaks under the entire GEOM stack when it writes its changes
> to the disk, and the kernel/GEOM has not been and will not be bloated
> with code to detect this hack.
> [...]
> Unfortunately, I don't have time to work much on this issue, just
> getting the kernel side and the basic tools (bsdlabel(8), sunlabel(8)
> etc in shape takes most of the time I have.

Perhaps a side issue - is it possible to tell the GRUB-people how to 
deal with GEOM correctly?

Sure, the 'kern.geom.debugflags=16'-setting seems to be a workaround (?) 
but not a solution.
-- 
Ciao/BSD - Matthias

Matthias Schuendehuette	<msch [at] snafu.de>, Berlin (Germany)
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