Remove ccd(4), et al?

Garrett Cooper yanegomi at gmail.com
Tue Dec 2 19:47:24 UTC 2014


On Dec 2, 2014, at 11:45, Xin Li <delphij at delphij.net> wrote:

> Signed PGP part
> On 12/02/14 11:25, Garrett Cooper wrote:
> > Hi, I was doing some poking around, and it appears that ccd(4) is
> > currently disconnected from the kernel build but the utilities are
> > always built in userland. I was wondering if the driver is still
> > relevant, given other more flexible block-layer implementations
> > like geom_mirror, geom_raid*, zfs, etc.
> 
> Isn't it supported via geom_ccd(4) [no manual page here]?

You’re right, I forgot that geom modules are an additional layer deeper than most:

$ find /sys/modules/geom/geom_ccd/
/sys/modules/geom/geom_ccd/
/sys/modules/geom/geom_ccd/Makefile

I’ll just add another knob in the build system for it.

Sorry for the noise / thanks for the clarity :)!


More information about the freebsd-arch mailing list