Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 13:42:52 +0100 From: des@des.no (=?iso-8859-1?q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?=) To: Stas Myasnikov <myst@tut.by> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What is this GEOM thing? Message-ID: <86ll8pkrlf.fsf@xps.des.no> In-Reply-To: <web-25122287@tut.by> References: <web-25122287@tut.by>
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Stas Myasnikov <myst@tut.by> writes: > Can anyone tell me what is GEOM basically? I know that there's geom@, > but I think it's about concrete realisation. It's an abstraction layer for dealing with disk transformations (partitioning, RAID, encryption etc.) > I know that it's a layer between device drivers and devfs, but do > I really need it on my home PC? Should I include it in the KERNEL? GEOM is not optional. Your computer would be unable to boot without it. DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no
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