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Date:      Fri, 18 Nov 2005 11:19:38 +0100
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org>
Cc:        John Polstra <jdp@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, Lukas Ertl <le@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/cam/scsi scsi_cd.c scsi_da.c src/sys/geom geom_disk.c geom_disk.h geom_subr.c 
Message-ID:  <7052.1132309178@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 18 Nov 2005 01:46:34 MST." <437D94EA.90909@samsco.org> 

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In message <437D94EA.90909@samsco.org>, Scott Long writes:
>Lukas Ertl wrote:

>What does this mean for other drivers?  RAID arrays can come and go
>at runtime, either due to drive failure or due to actions by the user
>via a management app.  I don't recall ever seeing a problem like this
>with the aac driver and creating/destroying arrays in a loop at runtime.

Most drivers seem to detach their internal state from the struct
disk, and therefore they don't need this.

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