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Date:      Sun, 07 May 2000 12:08:29 +0200
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
Cc:        "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@FreeBSD.ORG>, FreeBSD-arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Support for bootable Vinum file systems: please review 
Message-ID:  <12215.957694109@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 07 May 2000 17:46:39 %2B0930." <20000507174638.E55316@freebie.lemis.com> 

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In message <20000507174638.E55316@freebie.lemis.com>, Greg Lehey writes:
>On Friday,  5 May 2000 at 12:52:33 +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>>
>>> I've been testing vinum root file systems for a couple of months now,
>>> and I'd like to commit the code.  I'm attaching the patches, which you
>>> can also access at http://www.FreeBSD.org/~grog/vinum-root.html.
>>
>> It looks good, but I think using devstat to find possible disks is
>> wrong.
>>
>> The right way to do it is probably to link the "struct disk"s
>> registered by the drivers with disk_creat() into a list which can
>> be searched.
>
>This is pretty much what struct devstat does, except that it's more
>global.  Why should we maintain two lists, just because one is
>primarily intended for statistics?
>
>Anyway, I assume this isn't so much a criticism of the fix as of the
>infrastructure around it.  Correct?

No, this is an objection to opening up devstat that way.

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