Hi Antony, On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 09:36:19AM +1100, Antony Mawer wrote : > Every time this comes up it's branded with the "really hard to fix" > message, but I seem to recall the last time this came up Matt Dillon > chimed in and said he'd managed to fix it in Dragonfly without too > much pain. > > I had a browse back a while ago at the commits on DF to try and > pinpoint the changes that were required to see how practical they were > to bring across to FreeBSD; I don't profess to be an expert and have > yet to investigate the changes in any detail, but these were the > commits I identified: > > http://freshbsd.org/2007/06/14/03/55/27 > http://freshbsd.org/2007/06/17/06/08/52 > http://freshbsd.org/2007/06/14/02/09/30 > http://freshbsd.org/2007/06/13/21/58/38 > http://freshbsd.org/2007/06/13/21/53/39 > > If someone else is interested in looking at this, it may provide a > useful starting point...
First of all, I am not a FreeBSD kernel hacker and thus maybe I am wrong but I think that it is important to recall that DragonflyBSD is ``the logical continuation of the FreeBSD 4.x series'' [1]. As so, it does not provides geom(8) [2], AFAIK. While geom(8) is a really cool piece of code, it also adds many abstraction layers that may have to be adapted to handle such an abnormal situation. This might explain why nobody has already [tried to] fixed this. Maybe somebody from geom@ can give us further details or correct what I wrote? Best regards, Romain References: 1. http://www.dragonflybsd.org/about/history.shtml 2. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=geom -- Romain Tartière <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://romain.blogreen.org/ pgp: 8DAB A124 0DA4 7024 F82A E748 D8E9 A33F FF56 FF43 (ID: 0xFF56FF43) (plain text =non-HTML= PGP/GPG encrypted/signed e-mail much appreciated)
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