In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bakul Shah writes:
>I never understood why removal of block devices was allowed >in the first place. You are welcome to peruse the mail-archives to find out such historically interesting decisions. You are not welcome to build another bikeshed over it. >How hard would it be to bring back block devices without GEOM? Not at all hard, pretty trivial in fact. >Is there a write up somewhere on what GEOM is and its >benefits? I'd hate to see it become the default without >understanding it (and no, reading source code doesn't do it). Man 4 geom is a good place to start. There will also be a tutorial friday afternoon about GEOM at BSDCONeuro2002 in amsterdam next month. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
