Difference between FreeBSD-7 and FreeBSD-8 in tasting?

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <852978746.20090818113833 at serebryakov.spb.ru>, Lev Serebryakov write
s:

>  I've found problem. geom_raid5 check cp->provider->sectorsize before
>g_access() call, and on boot it is zero before g_access() and 512
>(which is proper value) after this call.

This is a bug in geom_raid5:

The sectorsize and mediasize are only valid if you hold a proper access
to the provider.

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