Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2007 11:32:11 +0100 From: Ivan Voras <ivoras@fer.hr> To: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New g_part class Message-ID: <eq9lfb$5o4$1@sea.gmane.org> In-Reply-To: <89489.1170747375@critter.freebsd.dk> References: <BA11EE01-2B86-42EA-94AC-6F977EF7E680@mac.com> <89489.1170747375@critter.freebsd.dk>
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Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > Considering the fact that editing can be done equally well in > userland, what is the rationale or benefit of putting the code into > the kernel, to deal with very infrequent operations to change the > disk-layout ? Hmm, editing partition in userland... isn't there some well known problem with editing partitions in userland requiring setting kern.geom.debugflags to 16 before continuing? I might be wrong, but I think this was one of the problems with geom_gpt?
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