Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2013 00:51:37 +0000 (UTC) From: Colin Percival <cperciva@FreeBSD.org> To: src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-stable@freebsd.org, svn-src-stable-9@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r255502 - stable/9/share/man/man4 Message-ID: <201309130051.r8D0pbbP049663@svn.freebsd.org>
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Author: cperciva Date: Fri Sep 13 00:51:37 2013 New Revision: 255502 URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/255502 Log: MFC r255459: Remove documentation describing functionality which geom(4) does not, in fact, provide. Modified: stable/9/share/man/man4/geom.4 Directory Properties: stable/9/share/man/man4/ (props changed) Modified: stable/9/share/man/man4/geom.4 ============================================================================== --- stable/9/share/man/man4/geom.4 Thu Sep 12 22:06:12 2013 (r255501) +++ stable/9/share/man/man4/geom.4 Fri Sep 13 00:51:37 2013 (r255502) @@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ .\" .\" $FreeBSD$ .\" -.Dd May 25, 2006 +.Dd September 10, 2013 .Dt GEOM 4 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -319,24 +319,6 @@ only be done with their cooperation. Finally: the spoiling only happens when the write count goes from zero to non-zero and the retasting happens only when the write count goes from non-zero to zero. -.It Em INSERT/DELETE -are very special operations which allow a new geom -to be instantiated between a consumer and a provider attached to -each other and to remove it again. -.Pp -To understand the utility of this, imagine a provider -being mounted as a file system. -Between the DEVFS geom's consumer and its provider we insert -a mirror module which configures itself with one mirror -copy and consequently is transparent to the I/O requests -on the path. -We can now configure yet a mirror copy on the mirror geom, -request a synchronization, and finally drop the first mirror -copy. -We have now, in essence, moved a mounted file system from one -disk to another while it was being used. -At this point the mirror geom can be deleted from the path -again; it has served its purpose. .It Em CONFIGURE is the process where the administrator issues instructions for a particular class to instantiate itself.
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