Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 14:22:38 +0000 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@iet.unipi.it> Cc: geom@freebsd.org Subject: Re: geom 'taste' vs. manual creation ? Message-ID: <29945.1231856558@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 13 Jan 2009 13:21:11 %2B0100." <20090113122111.GA89189@onelab2.iet.unipi.it>
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In message <20090113122111.GA89189@onelab2.iet.unipi.it>, Luigi Rizzo writes: >geom(4) says: > > A geom which came into being as a result of a normal taste operation > should self-destruct... > >Now I wonder: >does the GEOM infrastructure record whether a geom has been created >by a 'taste' call, or manually through a 'geom xxx create ..', or >this info should be managed directly by the individual implementation ? No, there is no difference on how a geom is created. The above statement indicates a level of magic that is not really there, all the geoms get orphaned the same way. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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