Poul-Henning Kamp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can you hold off on this one for a bit ? I would like to see how > dumpdevices end in GEOM before I make up my mind. It may be needed > to do more than the sysctl in a GEOM world ( like actually opening > the device for instance) so a program like dumpon would be useful > to embed this code in.
Certainly. I wouldn't want to unnecessarily delay the integration of copy-on-write :-). Consider my proposal withdrawn. > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Dima Dorfman writes: > >Since sysctl(8) grew support for setting dev_t's, dumpon(8) can be > >reduced to: > > > > sysctl kern.dumpdev=$argument > > > >Since dumpon(8) is not a standard interface and only appears to be > >used in /etc/rc, I'd like to change the latter to use sysctl(8) > >directly and remove dumpon(8) from the tree. The only issue I can see > >is that there is a lot of relevant information in the dumpon(8) manual > >page, but most of it is probably more appropriate for the Handbook or > >crash(8), anyway. > > > >If nobody objects, I'd like to move the relevant stuff out of the > >dumpon(8) manual and proceed to remove the program itself as described > >above. > > > >Thanks. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
