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Date:      Fri, 18 Nov 2005 17:04:39 +0100
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org>
Cc:        John Polstra <jdp@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, Lukas Ertl <le@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/cam/scsi scsi_cd.c scsi_da.c src/sys/geom geom_disk.c geom_disk.h geom_subr.c 
Message-ID:  <8623.1132329879@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 18 Nov 2005 08:58:44 MST." <437DFA34.8040308@samsco.org> 

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In message <437DFA34.8040308@samsco.org>, Scott Long writes:
>Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:

>Ok.  John's fix seems hackish (no offense John).  I'll likely look at
>this in the coming months.

Actually it isn't.

It gives the driver a way to say "this disk is gone" as early as
possible, thus preventing the situation from becoming more complex
and thus reducing the cleanup work a bit.

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