geom 'taste' vs. manual creation ?

[Luigi Rizzo]

On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 02:22:38PM +0000, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> In message <20090113122111.GA89189 at onelab2.iet.unipi.it>, Luigi Rizzo writes:
> >geom(4) says:
> >
> >   A geom which came into being as a result of a normal taste operation
> >   should self-destruct...
> >
> >Now I wonder:
> >does the GEOM infrastructure record whether a geom has been created
> >by a 'taste' call, or manually through a 'geom xxx create ..', or
> >this info should be managed directly by the individual implementation ?
> 
> No, there is no difference on how a geom is created.  The above
> statement indicates a level of magic that is not really there, all
> the geoms get orphaned the same way.

ok thanks
luigi