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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
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Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no



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