geom and removable media

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <4D9D7EEB.3080607 at FreeBSD.org>, Andriy Gapon writes:

>Which I
>don't think would a right thing in the current world order where /dev/cdX
>represents both the drive and its media.

You can create the new /dev/cdX right away, so there is no real window of
inconsistency.

And good observation btw, it was a big mistake to use the same /dev
entry for both drive and media, but waaay to late to fix it now.

-- 
Poul-Henning Kamp       | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20
phk at FreeBSD.ORG         | TCP/IP since RFC 956
FreeBSD committer       | BSD since 4.3-tahoe    
Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.