svn commit: r220982 - in head: . sys/amd64/conf sys/arm/conf
sys/conf sys/i386/conf sys/ia64/conf sys/mips/conf sys/mips/malta
sys/pc98/conf sys/powerpc/conf sys/sparc64/conf sys/sun4v/conf
Pawel Jakub Dawidek
pjd at FreeBSD.org
Tue Apr 26 07:03:18 UTC 2011
On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 12:16:22PM -0700, Garrett Cooper wrote:
> I'd prefer having an UPDATING note with all of the affected areas so that people can understand what needs to change and adjust their systems accordingly. As far as geom based hardcoding is concerned: maybe this can serve as a good lesson of what shouldn't be done and what should be fixed/have a translation layer added for this item?
Hardcoding provider names in metadata is not mistake. It was added to
protect against hacks like the 'c' partition. In the system there might
be serval providers representing exactly same data and hardcoding
provider name allows to choose the proper one.
--
Pawel Jakub Dawidek http://www.wheelsystems.com
FreeBSD committer http://www.FreeBSD.org
Am I Evil? Yes, I Am! http://yomoli.com
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 196 bytes
Desc: not available
Url : http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/svn-src-head/attachments/20110426/dc818b22/attachment.pgp
More information about the svn-src-head
mailing list