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Date:      Tue, 06 Feb 2007 10:35:24 +0000
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        Ivan Voras <ivoras@fer.hr>
Cc:        freebsd-geom@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: New g_part class 
Message-ID:  <91005.1170758124@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 06 Feb 2007 11:32:11 %2B0100." <eq9lfb$5o4$1@sea.gmane.org> 

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In message <eq9lfb$5o4$1@sea.gmane.org>, Ivan Voras writes:
>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?

If the geom classes are implemented correctly, you should never
need to set kern.geom.debugflags.

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