GEOM "splicing"? Is it possible to insert GEOM into stack on-line?

[Ivan Voras]

On 23/10/2011 15:19, Lev Serebryakov wrote:
> Hello, Freebsd-geom.
> 
>   As far as I remeber, there was some support for "splicing" GEOM I/O
> schedulers into "live" GEOM graph without rebuilding graph from
> scratches.

AFAIK it was a relatively dirty hack; a better, more systematic solution
is being discussed for a long time now...

>  Is it possible now for GEOM class, which is completely transparent
> (like geom_nop, without offsets, errors, etc) to be inserted into live
> GEOM graph? I need to put one such GEOM between device and file system
> and I don't want to stop server, unmount filesystem, etc...

Short answer: no.

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