RFC: backporting GEOM to the 4.x branch

[Brooks Davis]

On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 06:08:55PM -0800, ALeine wrote:
> 
> I would hereby like to politely request your comments on backporting
> GEOM to the 4.x branch. I personally would like to see GEOM backported
> to the 4.x branch and I would appreciate it if all the developers
> (especially Mr. Poul-Henning Kamp) who are familiar with the inner
> workings of GEOM could comment on that idea, especially in terms of
> giving me a rough overview of what would need to be done and pointing
> me in the right direction so I could get started with backporting
> GEOM myself. I should mention that I am an experienced programmer, but
> my kernel programming experience is limited, I've only done some minor
> work on a couple of kernel modules.
> 
> I do understand that this would be quite an undertaking, so I would
> also like to hear from others who would be willing to work on
> backporting GEOM to the 4.x branch and having the port integrated
> into DragonFly BSD.

I'm sure it's technically possible, but I can state with absolute
certainly that it would never be committed to FreeBSD's RELENG_4.  I
believe Matt has some ideas of his own on how he would like to see
GEOM's functionality implemented in DragonFly.

-- Brooks

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