geom debugging tools ?

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <20090326112222.GE10080 at stlux503.dsto.defence.gov.au>, "Wilkinson, A
lex" writes:
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>    0n Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 11:17:30AM +0000, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: 
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>    >sysctl -b kern.geom.confxml
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>Curios, why doesn't 'sysctl -a' display "kern.geom.confxml" ? e.g.

Because we don't want to spam the sysctl -a output with so much
output.

There are many other sysctls which also are not shown during
sysctl -a because they return binary structures.

The '-b' flag means "I know it may be binary" and we (ab)use that
to supress the XML output from sysctl -a.


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