Re: race between geom and root mount

From: Poul-Henning Kamp (phk_at_phk.freebsd.dk)
Date: 09/21/04

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    To: Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org>
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 13:13:43 +0200

    In message <20040921110802.GF93460@darkness.comp.waw.pl>, Pawel Jakub Dawidek w
    rites:

    >+> Yes. We need to solve this problem correctly, and that has a fair
    >+> number of issues involved.
    >+>
    >+> I am not going to rush in a band-aid for 5.3, the risk of breaking
    >+> something is far larger than the inconvenience of not being able
    >+> to use a number of new geom classes for root filesystems.
    >+>
    >+> When we have the correct solution, it can be MT5'ed and future 5.x
    >+> releases will have it.
    >
    >Why can't we just use my fix temporarily, so gmirror can be fully usable
    >for 5.3-RELEASE? We can always back it out and MT5 a better solution
    >later.

    I am not convinced that your fix will not cause other problems. 

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