[OT] GEOM meaning

[Luca Ferrari]

Thanks.
I was thinking about that and found an answer also in the source code
(geom_kern.c):
SYSCTL_NODE(_kern, OID_AUTO, geom, CTLFLAG_RW, 0, "GEOMetry management");


Anybody has a clue also for the meaning of geli?

Luca

On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 8:57 AM, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk at phk.freebsd.dk> wrote:
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> In message <CAKoxK+4yai69WGbtS1AeFJ4iLLCYC5NqVtJ=h0as8HJC-bkcpQ at mail.gmail.com>, Luca Ferrari writes:
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>>I'm curious to know if GEOM stands for something or does not have any
>>particular meaning. I was unable to figure it out.
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> It's shorthand for "geometry"
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