Date: Mon, 08 May 2000 10:09:54 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, FreeBSD-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Support for bootable Vinum file systems: please review Message-ID: <16718.957773394@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 07 May 2000 21:23:51 MDT." <200005080323.VAA04115@caspian.plutotech.com>
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In message <200005080323.VAA04115@caspian.plutotech.com>, "Justin T. Gibbs" wri tes: >My belief, and this is probably shared by phk, is that the handlers >for different partition types should be "executed" or "attached to" >as those partitions are found. A scan of a list is only necessary >in the event of a handler being registered after a partition is found. >Although devstat may suffice for the latter, it was not designed to >handle the former. 'GEOM' is what you want although I don't know >how soon phk can provide it to you. I agree. GEOM is probably still a month or two away, depending how my summer goes. When greg began working on this root-mount stuff I offered to make him an API into the disk-minilayer (ie: struct disk list), but he never sent me an email with what information he needed. The offer is still open. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD coreteam member | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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