On Saturday, 8 February 2003 at 21:42:27 +0100, Joerg Wunsch wrote: > As Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > >>> I guess it's time to dump the old vinum start code from >>> vinum(8) completely, and use the in-kernel scan now. >> >> This sounds like a good idea. > > Not after looking a bit closer. ;-) The only difference ist that the > userland "vinum start" uses devstat, while the in-kernel autoscan if > vinum.autostart is set uses sysctl kern.disks (devstat is not > available in the kernel).
Yes it is. But there were (valid) objections to using in the kernel. By the time they came up, I was already using it in userland, and since nobody asked me to back it out, I didn't :-) > Both use the same backend function. So yes, the userland should > probably be changed to use the sysctl as well, Correct. > but that's certainly not the root of Michael's problems. Something > else must be the problem there. Yes, I'll look at that in a minute. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers
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