On Tue, Sep 21, 2004 at 10:28:31AM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: +> >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. 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. -- Pawel Jakub Dawidek http://www.FreeBSD.org pjd_at_FreeBSD.org http://garage.freebsd.pl FreeBSD committer Am I Evil? Yes, I Am!
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