What is this GEOM thing?

[Dag-Erling Smørgrav]

Stas Myasnikov <myst at tut.by> writes:
> Can anyone tell me what is GEOM basically? I know that there's geom@,
> but I think it's about concrete realisation.

It's an abstraction layer for dealing with disk transformations
(partitioning, RAID, encryption etc.)

> I know that it's a layer between device drivers and devfs, but do
> I really need it on my home PC? Should I include it in the KERNEL?

GEOM is not optional.  Your computer would be unable to boot without
it.

DES
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