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Date:      Sat, 25 Jan 2003 11:26:46 +1100 (EST)
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>
Cc:        phk@FreeBSD.ORG, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, <arch@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: HEADSUP: DEVFS and GEOM mandatorification timeline. 
Message-ID:  <20030125110722.C8080-100000@gamplex.bde.org>
In-Reply-To: <20030124190057.91A3B2A7EA@canning.wemm.org>

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On Fri, 24 Jan 2003, Peter Wemm wrote:

> phk@freebsd.org wrote:
> > In message <20030121092851.A27172@citusc.usc.edu>, Kris Kennaway writes:
> > >On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 12:58:12PM +0100, phk@FreeBSD.ORG wrote:
> > >>=20
> > >> I have uploaded two patchfiles:
> > >>=20
> > >> 	http://phk.freebsd.dk/patch/small.patch
> > >> 	   Removes just the options from sys/conf
> > >>=20
> > >> 	http://phk.freebsd.dk/patch/big.patch
> > >> 	   unifdef -UNODEVFS -UNO_GEOM
> > >> 	   Removes roughly 2800 lines of code.
> > >
> > >To the best of your knowledge, there are no remaining serious bugs or
> > >missing functionality with GEOM (like the disklabel editing problems
> > >found before 5.0, etc)?
> >
> > There is one errata point (can't rewrite BSD boot code on a disk
> > which is in use) which I am testing a patch for.
> >
> > I know of no bugs at present.

Features like disklabel -r and disklabel -W not working are not bugs of
course.

> BTW; assuming these are taken care of, do we really gain anything by
> waiting so long?  Personally, I'd rather get it over and done with sooner
> rather than later.  What does waiting another month and a half buy us?  The
> handful folks who dont like it now are not going to start liking it by
> March 1st :-(.  Frankly I'd rather have an extra month focussed on this

True.  Some of us stopped working on FreeBSD already due to this.

Bruce


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